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This is an experimental hypertext book-in-progress I began in 2021. It’s built around a simple premise: human thinking isn’t linear, so a linear book isn’t always the best container for questions that sprawl, loop back, and change shape over time.
I use this space to study how people make sense of the world—and how meaning-making, essential to being human, can also cause harm when it hardens into unquestioned stories.
What I’m trying to understand here
This project is philosophical, but not abstract for its own sake. I’m interested in questions with real consequences:
- Why do people misunderstand each other—even when they mean well?
- Why do conflict, polarization, and dehumanization feel so “natural” once they start?
- What helps people repair connection after rupture?
- How can we collaborate across divides without erasing difference or forcing false agreement?
Underlying those questions is a broader concern: how to reduce the kinds of suffering that come from misreading ourselves, misreading others, and getting trapped in stories we can’t see from the inside.
Why hypertext
Instead of presenting one argument from beginning to end, I build a network of interconnected pages—ideas that branch, echo, and complicate one another. You can enter anywhere, follow links, and let your path reflect your own curiosity.
The structure is not an aesthetic gimmick; it’s a method. This project draws on the rhizomatic approach described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, where knowledge grows through connections rather than hierarchy—more like roots spreading underground than chapters lined up in a row.
What you’ll find on this site
Some pages are polished essays; others are shorter reflections or working drafts. Even when a page is “finished,” it remains part of a living system—open to revision as my thinking changes and new links appear. The writing aims to be scholarly in substance but readable in style. You do not need academic training to follow the ideas here.
Related work
This project also connects to my separate (but closely related) hypertext project on power—a space that grew out of the questions that kept surfacing here.
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