THE CUSTODIAL REPUBLIC
Reclaiming Africa's Future
Two moments anchor everything that follows. They are separated by a century and a half, and they are the same moment.
The first is 27 June 1890 at
Simulation
The Physics of Thought
I. The Pincer
There's a moment in Christopher Nolan's Tenet where the audience's understanding of the film inverts. For the first act, you
Lay it down
š...Some quick house-keepingš” before we dig into the essay...If you've been following my most recent essays--please proceed to section 1 of this essay. If you haven't read my
Q.E.D.
On Encountering an Object That Doesn't Require Your Permission to Exist
I. The Shared Platform
Everyone lives inside a shared assumption. It cuts across every division humans createāreligion, politics, culture,
The Tesseract
I. An object outside of time
In Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Cooper falls into the black hole Gargantua and finds himself inside a tesseractāa four-dimensional structure where time is rendered as