Gray sky thinking: John Boyd and generative entropy
For Boyd, entropy becomes a generative engine, the very means by which the breakdown of one order supplies the materials for another.
Gray Sky Thinking
Rethinking why we're failing to navigate emerging security crises and how conceptual engineering can help us adapt to such circumstances more effectively.
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
Astronoetics: "Anticipation of Spaceflight as Metaphor"
Translation from Hans Blumenberg's Die Vollzähligkeit der Sterne (1997).
Reading geopolitics: "Air War and Literature" (1999) and Sama’ Abdulhadi
On W. G. Sebald's "Air War and Literature" and Sama’ Abdulhadi.
Reading geopolitics: The Invisible Empire (2022)
On Juha Arvid Helminen's A Journey to the Invisible Empire.
Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience
For Augustine, the imperfection of political life becomes a kind of speculative engine, the very means of generating new projects and trajectories.
Reading geopolitics: Point Omega (2010)
On Don DeLillo's Point Omega.
Reading geopolitics: Cyclonopedia (2008)
On Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials.
Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay
Plato’s creation is a conceptual machine [...] seeking an exit to the surface, an egress to the Outside.
Reading geopolitics: The Folly and the Glory (2020)
On Tim Weiner's The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945-2020.
Introduction to gray sky thinking
The standard assumption about the future is that it will resemble the past. But this is wrong.