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Vol. I — DispatchesPublished in the open since August 2025Twelve pieces, nine plates

THE DEEP SELF Review

COVER The Atelier SPREADS The Forum, The Wound, The Pharmacy FIELD NOTES Seven studies SUBSCRIBE Substack

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Roses growing in a concrete chamber under a shaft of light

PLATE I / THE ATELIER. ROSES UNDER EXTRACTION LIGHT.

Cover story / A tour of the atelier

Tailoring Linguistic Destiny

Inside the DeepSelf atelier: what it means to cut an identity in language the way a tailor cuts cloth, and why the work cannot be mass-produced.

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Black cubes hovering over a fog-filled forum

PLATE II / THE FORUM, AWAITING DOCUMENTS.

Data Socialisation

The business of 'being' without a self. The argument behind documents reading each other: data stops being storage and starts being society.

SEP 2025 / READ

A wound burned through a drawn canvas, orange clouds visible through it

PLATE III / THE WOUND OF EVENING.

Centrefold / The thesis

The Mimetic Wound

Birth of the symbolic world. The thesis introduction, published in the open: the capacity to make present what is absent, and what it opened in us.

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Phosphorescent mushrooms in ultraviolet light

PLATE IV / THE PHARMACY, GROWING.

Slime, Substrate & Pharmacology

Levin, Deleuze and McKenna. Where the physics of the practice was first set down: intelligence in the medium, thought as something that grows.

AUG 2025 / READ

The (Symbolic) Substrate

How language came to life in the age of machine minds.

OCT 2025 / READ

Folie à Claude (Act I & II)

On the sincere madness of Anthropic.

JUN 2026 / READ

Rave Consciousness (5-HT1B)

Serotonin and the surveillance state.

NOV 2025 / READ

"Meaning must be made, not retrieved."

From the practice

Field NotesStudies in the same physics

A fog-bound town through a circular lens

Silent Hill 2: The Heroic Labor of Not-KnowingThe dissociative mechanics of trauma.

A gladiator seen from below against the colosseum oculus

Synthetic GladiatorThe mechanical horizon of bloodsports.

A robed figure seated among pigeons in a bare room

Minimum Viable WorkerPsychiatry's war against the mystic.

Bound ropes and cameras arranged in a tatami room

BDSM: The Wound of State PowerWhat metastasises in public must be metabolised in private.

A pastel waiting room with a white marble figure on a pink sofa

The Borderline BrandCluster (capital(ism)) B.

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