Archedelia

The origins of social order

Fighting and playing

Sep 10 • 

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August 2025

Motorsport

It's mechanized Fight Club, beyond the reach of the schoolmarms

Aug 13 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

47

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July 2025

Is math erotic?

As the universities die, real education may have a renaissance.

Jul 26 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

118

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Private equity world

Your passion is underpriced -- meaning, not expensive enough

Jul 10 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

66

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June 2025

Neighborliness

Just a little anecdote to leaven your day

Jun 23 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

220

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Reconquista

Some deep background on California's "burrito antifada"

Jun 14 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

158

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Communication breakdown

Tower of Babel + Accretions of bureaucracy masquerading as IT = Neo-shithole

Jun 10 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

120

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Your call is important to us...

The effectual truth of AI

Jun 8 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

308

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May 2025

AI as an anthropological technology

What does it mean to be human?

May 29 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

75

25

April 2025

The boldness of belief, the timidity of technology

Ratzinger points to an exit from the soft despotism of the present. (Final installment of the vitalism seminar.)

Apr 15 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

114

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Anxiety and the modern compulsion to control the world

At the root of it is our relationship to time. (Part of the vitalism seminar)

Apr 6 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

70

16

March 2025

The romantic-conservative critique of Christianity

Does Christianity destroy allegiance to one's own home and ancestors? Session 7 of the vitalism seminar.

Mar 16 • 

Matthew B. Crawford

40

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