Work as a Moral Certificate
A wage does not merely pay for an activity: it often becomes a public justification for a life. That is where the moral prestige of exertion begins.
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Technical and narrative essays written to connect disciplines that usually remain separate, plus unorthodox style exercises.
Il lavoro deve finire
Se ASI e robot potessero riprodurre materialmente la società senza di noi, il lavoro perderebbe la sua giustificazione economica. Salario e proprietà diventerebbero il problema politico decisivo.
Iran, Hormuz, and War as a Network
A reading of the Iranian crisis as a network of chokepoints, rear areas, and negotiating channels, paired with a falsifiable causal model from verified events to physical flows, energy prices, and the Italian economy.
The wrong comparison of 20 watts
An essay on the metabolism of cognition: comparing brains and AI depends on the cost we assign, the accounting boundary, formation and reuse.
God as the invariance of projectability
A metaphysics of invariants: why the absolute should not be thought of as the undifferentiated totality of the possible, but as the principle that lets a loss of information become a world.
The privilege of doing little
Conceptual art, degrees and other proxies: an extended theory of the moment when the title weighs more than the result.
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An opening excerpt from a story I am trying to write.