formerly illustrated
illustrated some lines after Jim Moore*
illustrated what do you want to say, Shirley*
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Body Politic to Machine to Blob Politic: an historical account of computational governmentality, AI & contemporary republican* expansionism†
*(not imperial)
†(in the present, 4 March 2026: Iran)
I. Classical Geometric Order
c. 5th century BCE–late antiquity
Key shift: Movement subordinated to geometry.
* Plato — ideal forms as spatial intelligibility
* Aristotle — ordered cosmos; teleological motion
* Euclidean geometry formalises space as stable structure
* Polis as body politic: centred, proportioned, bounded
we can map it holocaust by holocaust
why am I mediating this through AI?
for structural reasons, because I have nobody to keep up with me and, because I want you to keep up with me, I think what the AI writes is easier than I am to understand.
when I read that Claude AI quicker than