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- The Confrontation of Meaning: Culture, Chaos & Creation of Civilizational Self Image
- Human Possibility: The History Beneath Baseball
- Lost Subjectivities: A Global Working Class History of Baseball
- Poe, Modernity & The Perpetual Melancholy of Cosmic Horror
- Modernity -- from Pablo Picasso to Rimbaud, Poe, Woolf, and Artaud: The Human Nervous System in Organizational Chaos Grappling With Industrial Technological Revolution
- Opening Sketch: Whitman, Twain, Thoreau & The Birth of The American Game
- Victoriana: Meditations on the Abyssal Past Encoded into the Remnants of the Photographic Image
- Hall of Mirrors: The Fin de Siecle Studio Baseball Photograph
- Material Shock Absorption: Capitalism and the Regulation of Temporality After the Death of Natural Time
- THE INSTRUMENT APPLIED: Eight Readings Through the Law of Being
- THE OPERATOR BELOW THE THRESHOLD: Non-Human and Full Lifecycle Tests of the Law of Being
- Shelley and the Failure of Modernity
- The Instability of the Shelleyan Consciousness
- The Eagle’s Perch: The Cognitive Arc of the Renaissance Mind From Leonardo to Shelley to The World’s Midnight
- Symbolic Acceleration, Ontological Disclosure, and Historical Collapse
- The Existential Aperture, Catabatic Consciousness, and the Longform Masterwork as Ontological Field Report
- The Existential Masterwork and Direct Confrontation With the Ontos
- The Existential Masterwork as Minimal Ontological Distance
- The Long-Form Existential Text as Temporal Ontological Traversal
- The Archive as Disclosure Architecture
- Freud and the Regulatory Architecture of Civilization: Civilization and Its Discontents Through the Operator and the Catabatic Archive
- Modernity as Insurrection Against the Presumed Symbolic Self: The Return of the Ontos Beneath the Signifier
- Somatic Catabasis: Poetic Architecture in Modernity (May 19, 2026 Lecture)
- Alienated Identities: Using Language to Define the Self
- The Modern Return to Being and the Difference From the Greek World
- The Passage Through Modernity: From the Greek to Lispector
- The Poets & Self-Naturalizing Symbolic Order
- Sentence, Star, Genome: Compression and Scalar Being
- C\\u00e9zanne, Van Gogh, and the Gleaming: On Light, Disclosure, and Recursive Symbolos (May 27, 2026 Lecture)
- Picasso’s Bulls, Prigogine, Newton, Rimbaud, Marx in Translation & Nuclear Fusion: Modernity’s Revolution and Revelation of the Character of Being as Super-Substrate Operator Identity (May 30, 2026)
- Extracts from Rimbaud
- Rimbaud the Shaman
- BLOOD FLUTE AND THE PRIMORDIAL DESCENT: Toward a Theory of the Cave Ontos
- Genealogy of the Function
- The Modern Cave Descender: Blood Flute, Rimbaud, Eliot, and the Ancient Function
- Addendum: Attunement
- Genius as Disclosure Habitat
- Poetry and the Evolution of Participatory Perception
- Poetry as Total Dwelling
- The Historical Figure Behind the Poet
- The Poet as Evolutionary Organ
- The Poet as State-Space
- Three Openings in the History of Participation
- Directness' of the Anima Encounter / the Ensouled World
- Poetry as Fermentation
- Shelley and Rimbaud
- The Condition of Genius
- The Mechanism: How Genius Consciousness Encounters the Ensouled World
- The Path of the Poem
- The Poetic Instrument
- The Specific Nakedness of Nerval
- Recovery of the Soul and the Soul Path in Modernity
- Keats principles
- Pre raphaelites Klimt and incarnate modernity
- Shelly, Goethe, notes
- Summation of the epithetic, analogic operations as discussed prior re: Poetry; Civilization; Unity
- The Urpflanze, Prometheus Unbound, Homer, Shelley's Individual, and the Culmination of the Anima-World Soul Tradition
- II. Arthur Rimbaud: The Formative Period and the Road to Une Saison en Enfer
- SUMMA VATETICA: A Complete Account of the Prophetic Function: Its Nature, Its History, Its Suppression, and Its Return
- The Return of the Vates: Rimbaud and the Attempted Reemergence of the Prophetic Function in Modernity
- Why Jesus Bore Full Fruit: The Vatic Function Completed
- Goethe's Madhouse: How Compensatory, Private Defenses Become Personalities, Institutions, and Worlds
- The Booth as Theatre: Gary, Keith, Ron, Baseball, and the Comedy of Knowability
- The Theatre Against the System: Gogol, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Lispector, and the Limits of Knowability
- Lecture: The Metaphysical Existential Farce of Modernity & The Primacy of Ontology (9/4/26)
- Lecture: Ontological Menippea (9/5/26)
- The Theater of Persistence: Human Confusion and the Play Behind the Mask (Lecture 10/5/26)
- Leviathan, Eichmann, and Goethe: On evil and the persistence operator \\u2014 a lecture Oct 8, 2026