reading · 08 sepshane denson, post-cinematic bodies
bam! so it's actually a sociological theory and not a phenomenal one?ideas · 03 sepanton vidokle, the pool is already therereview · 12 augstefan paulus, non-becomingreview · 09 augalenka zupančič, what if the interregnum is the regnum?study · 11 julliving furniture: beyond poeticsreview · 10 juljane bennett, influx & effluxprose · 05 juljesteringreview · 04 julireland & kronic, cute accelerationismdiscourse · 30 junglykon & gonçalves, metalogosreview · 22 junthe algorithm and the antichrist
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seven registers · every piece on the site is one of these37reviewliterary criticism—1discoursegetting the last word in—10counterreader response satire—13ideasoriginal interventions—3readinginterpretation scaffolding—20originalseverything off-register—4noteseisegesis of the canon—
—pieces filedacross seven registers
37works rankedscore argued, not computed
20,490numbered titlespresses only — periodicals uncounted
57publisher catalogueslast revision 01 mar 2026
shane denson — reading
—interpretation scaffolding·08 sep 2026·readingread the file →each mark opens its register and you can use it as a menu toodon't y'all think that abstraction is necessary?
criticism
institutional programme →01 / programmeannual structure
yearly review programme
a plan that doesn't usually work out02 / presscatalogue systempublisher catalogues
the first full theory catalogue in the world03 / indexevaluative archivewriting rankings
apparently producing results that look quantifiable04 / boardcomparative recordtheorist leaderboards
why is this guy better than that guy?05 / methodcritical protocolreview method & guide
like "stirner's critics" but with less hype06 / guaranteeeditorial standardquality guarantee
what publication and criticism commit tofeatured
01 / featured file11 jul 2026 — review
marek poliks & roberto alonso trillo, exocapitalism
apparently, empire is the horrible feudal slow sludge that levels your parking lot, whereas capitalism is the genius abstractive vehicle that stratifies only the germs it can see as volatile, creating value in labor?02 / featured file02 jun 2025 — counteranne dufourmantelle, in praise of risk
risk is everywhere, we are simply not present in it, not that we have somehow swallowed risk ontologically and managed to securitize everything.03 / featured file30 jun 2026 — ideaschor pharn lee, the architectures of intelligence and garden empires
pharn lee argues that water is exchanged for intelligence tokens in these premises, but i’d argue metis is more about being allowed to experience the world-interior of capital.index
soft affiliation only — nothing here is a partnershipby author
lukas likavcan
reviews ×2 · planetology→eugene thacker
reviews · horror of philosophy→nick land
counters · platform index→chosen because there is clear favoritism here obviously
click here for the full author index →by publisher
punctum books
forge · □ · cc by-nc-sa 4.0→open humanities press
crypt · ◎ · cc, scholar-led · 2→hyperspekulation
forge · ◎ · open journal · 1→specifically choosing copyleft publishers for this box so that i don’t get sued
click here for the full publisher index →the apparatus
every file is instrumented · the schematic is publicspecimen · gibson, rabelais
4/10disavowal
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- score — rarely directly argued, largely qualitative social signaling
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- form — one of ten shapes that try to map how the text behaves
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- account — basically, what is it + how long did it take me to read and review + how did i feel?
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- axes — five margins, fixed by form, an attempt at a new structuralism
use this interface to vaguely understand why and how there's a whole weird map before every text post
catalogues
institutional programme →02 / presscatalogue system
publisher catalogues
the first full theory catalogue in the world. every press worth reading, indexed by imprint, series and year — and revised like very rarely because i'm lazy.
20,490numbered titles57publisher catalogues01 mar 2026last revision
presses only — periodicals uncountedenter the catalogue →writings
mainline polemic
concept
cartographic splicing
6 / surfaces, fields, bubbles and other topontologies 5 / the speculative bestiary of cruelty: a genocide encyclopedia 4 / the external theory of value 3 / the phenomenology behind bullshit jobs 2 / the world charged with spirits and the haunting of the bourgeoisie imagination 1 / the ivory tower: concepts on alienation
narrative
single focus vision
reviews
literary criticism
9 / derrick jensen — endgame vol. one 8 / srećko horvat — the radicality of love 7 / marek poliks & roberto alonso trillo — exocapitalism 6 / eugene thacker — horror of philosophy, tentacles longer than night 5 / adam greenfield — lifehouse: taking care of ourselves in a world on fire 4 / claire colebrook — sex after life: essays on extinction, vol. two 3 / anna greenspan — china and the wireless undertow 2 / lukas likavcan — intro to comparative planetology 1 / bernardo esquinca — the secret life of insects and other stories
article reviews
for smaller pieces
20 / stefan paulus, non-becoming: echoes and fractals of un-becoming 19 / alenka zupančič, what if the interregnum is the regnum? 18 / giorgio cesarale & matteo pasquinelli, the algorithm and the antichrist 17 / s. prasad — crossing the rubicon 16 / tony chamas, genealogy of wokeism 15 / anna longo — post-neoliberalism & the rise of brand subjectivity 14 / zach gibson — a new look at rabelais and his world 13 / nikolay smirnov — elements of immanentism in russia 12 / georges didi-huberman — the potential not to 11 / maks valenčič — psychotic accelerationism 10 older article reviews →
chapter reviews
when one thing is enough
7 / jane bennett — influx & efflux: writing up w/ walt whitman 6 / amy ireland & maya b. kronic, cute accelerationism 5 / ajay singh chaudhary — the exhausted of the earth, the extractive circuit 4 / frank kermode — pleasure & change: the aesthetics of canon 3 / gabriel yoran — the interfact, genesis and integration 2 / steven shaviro — fluid futures, speculative time 1 / ulrike bergermann — property: colonial histories
ideas
original interventions
12 / anton vidokle — the pool is already there 11 / owen hatherley — militant modernism 10 / james stout — against the state: myanmar 9 / eugene thacker — data made flesh 8 / larry wolff — paolina's innocence: casanova's girls 7 / caroline arni — of human born: fetal lives 6 / chor pharn lee — the architectures of intelligence and garden empires 5 / iris carver — the telos project 4 / benjamin bratton — the myth of blurope 3 / yvette granata — after the machine child: the electra basilisk 2 / maurizio lazzarato — why war? 1 older in ideas →
counters
reader response satire
10 / roman khimei and yarema malashchuk — pedagogies of war 9 / jan grue — that obscure object of embodiment 8 / emma lieber — impossible professions 7 / xia jia — the ai story is not done 6 / nick land — fanged noumena 5 / giorgio agamben — profanations 4 / jonathan griffin — jacqueline humphries 3 / klauss theweleit — male fantasies 2 / anna dufourmantelle — in praise of risk 1 / robin mackay — simulations, exercise, operations the counters register →
notes
casual eisegesis of the canon
readings
interpretation scaffolding
discourse
getting the last word in
10 / phoebus glykon & luís gonçalves, metalogos 9 / mark fisher, the labour of simulation 8 / anne-françoise schmid, on contemporary objects 7 / eyal weizman, forensic temporality 6 / eivind rossaak, more than an image 5 / shane brighton, tragic witnessing 4 / stepan kment, programming worlds 3 / mckenzie wark, players 2 / der derian, virtuous war 1 / antoine bousquet, wargames
casual eisegesis of the canon
6 piecesnotes
to an extent, being unfair about a dead sacred text is the necessary responsibility of criticism at large. to generate unrelated thoughts about a text, thats what notes are really all about. the difference between marking and noting is that there is no point of noting if your notes look like more of what the text already says
06benjamin noys — the persistence of the negative05octavia e. butler — xenogenesis04peter sloterdijk — you must change your life03vilhelm flusser — vampire squid02lyotard & thebaud — just gaming01horace — ars poetica
one of seven registers · 90 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
getting the last word in
10 piecesdiscourse
getting the last word in. or in other words, allowing yourself to speak on top of every other guy, no matter what they think they're on top of. the character of thoughts beats the generation of thought itself, and this wisdom is carried over into every sequential inference. that's what our tradition is built on.
10phoebus glykon & luís gonçalves — metalogos09mark fisher — the labour of simulation08anne-françoise schmid — on contemporary objects07eyal weizman — forensic temporality06eivind rossaak — more than an image05shane brighton — tragic witnessing04stepan kment — programming worlds03mckenzie wark — players02der derian — virtuous war01antoine bousquet — wargames
one of seven registers · 90 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
interpretation scaffolding
5 piecesreading
interpretation scaffolding. closer to working through a text than judging it. a lot of it is still positioning, but the theoretical or critical tradition has a messier job than positioning a text, and that is arriving at the point where reading it actually matters. this question can only be answered through a reading, not through reading on its own.
05shane denson — post-cinematic bodies04john sanbonmatsu — the omnivore’s deception: blood and soil03hans jonas — the imperative of responsibility02roberto esposito — persons and things01bertrand russell — a history of western philosophy
one of seven registers · 92 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
original interventions
12 piecesideas
the healthiest, most wise, most pristine, most natural series. everything orients around a central axis, how can we take what somebody else did, and do something truly new with it? there is nothing more freeing than that. it is truly a time for that one golden philosophy.
12anton vidokle — the pool is already there11owen hatherley — militant modernism10james stout — against the state: myanmar09eugene thacker — data made flesh08larry wolff — paolina’s innocence07caroline arni — of human born: fetal lives06chor pharn lee — architectures of intelligence05iris carver — the telos project04benjamin bratton — the myth of blurope03yvette granata — after the machine child02maurizio lazzarato — why war?01bernes, obrien & petrossian — inquiry on the future of revolution
one of seven registers · 92 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
reader response satire
10 piecescounter
reader response satire. written against the object rather than about it. parodying the voice and character of a writing brings it closer not just to a reader experience but to the fundmental meaningful encounter
10khimei & malashchuk — pedagogies of war09jan grue — that obscure object of embodiment08emma lieber — impossible professions07xia jia — the ai story is not done06nick land — fanged noumena05giorgio agamben — profanations04jonathan griffin — jacqueline humphries03klauss theweleit — male fantasies02anna dufourmantelle — in praise of risk01robin mackay — simulations, exercise, operations
one of seven registers · 90 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
synkar’s own writing
20 pieceswritings
synkar’s own writing — the only register here not pointed at somebody else. unfortunately, still pointed at everything. but you're in luck, there are ways to reading a text without needing to know its references, and they are now menu options!
writings · mainline polemic04the urban middle class & the substratum of permission03the balkan world enters the prestige economy02sacrifice in the mortuary of the autist01political economy in its production of dogmatismconcept · cartographic splicing06surfaces, fields, bubbles and other topontologies05the speculative bestiary of cruelty04the external theory of value03the phenomenology behind bullshit jobs02the world charged with spirits01the ivory tower: concepts on alienationnarrative · single focus vision04the twenty ninth frimaire of jofan j. caerleone03europe’s new sovereignty02on the origin of women01the future history of affectprose · experimental word structures03jestering02pornologicalities01omega: vol. 2studies · academy tier03living furniture: beyond poetics02medicamenticality01the rite of harm in the aesthetics of violence
one of seven registers · 90 pieces in totalfull catalogue →
every review, article review and chapter review
37 piecesreview
someone else’s argument, taken apart. or rather, judged, truly judged. but more importantly, truly encountered. that is what makes craft necessary, devotion. and also, bastardization. lots of both.
book reviews10derrick jensen — endgame vol. one09srećko horvat — the radicality of love08marek poliks & roberto alonso trillo — exocapitalism07eugene thacker — tentacles longer than night06adam greenfield — lifehouse05claire colebrook — sex after life, vol. two04anna greenspan — china and the wireless undertow03lukas likavcan — intro to comparative planetology02lukas likavcan — the governance of habitability01bernardo esquinca — the secret life of insectsarticle reviews19stefan paulus — non-becoming18alenka zupančič — what if the interregnum is the regnum?17cesarale & pasquinelli — the algorithm and the antichrist16s. prasad — crossing the rubicon15tony chamas — genealogy of wokeism14anna longo — post-neoliberalism & brand subjectivity13zach gibson — a new look at rabelais and his world12nikolay smirnov — elements of immanentism in russia11georges didi-huberman — the potential not to10maks valenčič — psychotic accelerationism09charles mudede — will ai remember the days of slavery?08james de llis — progress is a life worm07tung-hui hu — after exhaustion, a door06thotti — play cow05hamed mohavedi — new normativity in adorno04laura tripaldi — substrates unbound03mr. burns collective — ten theses on revolutionary possibility02skvortsova & nahkshunov — paradoxes of homosexual desire01eugénie desmedt — wholesale!chapter reviews08jane bennett — influx & efflux07ireland & kronic — cute accelerationism06john sanbonmatsu — the omnivore’s deception05ajay singh chaudhary — the extractive circuit04frank kermode — pleasure & change03gabriel yoran — the interfact02steven shaviro — fluid futures, speculative time01ulrike bergermann — property: colonial histories
one of seven registers · 90 pieces in totalfull catalogue →