KdM in IM-1776

As your humble neighborhood Substack correspondent, whose subscribership only very recently crested past the three-digit number (not that we would ever worship the number; or, perhaps, the Number is all we should worship), I was gobsmacked to be asked by a publication of the likes of IM-1776 if I would write for them a review of Alex Karp’s debut book in English, co-authored with his long-time Palantir advisor Nicholas Zamiska, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. After picking myself up off the floor, I said yes, and readied myself for the challenge.

Gratitude to IM-1776 for their editorial support, encouragement, and unending patience. (This piece originally landed at 11,000 words.)

Click through here:

“The Word Is Not Enough: Palantir and the Language of Creation”

Other writings of mine on the Karpverse:

• The Jargon of “Die Zeit”

• Alex Karp’s “Aggression in the Lebenswelt”

• Karpverse-adjacent: “Mr. Thiel’s Appeal”

A clouded dream on an earthly night

Hangs upon the crescent moon

A voiceless song in an ageless light

Sings at the coming dawn

Birds in flight are calling there

Where the heart moves the stones

— Loreena McKennitt, “The Mystic’s Dream”