CONTEXT
A Post-Abstraction Subject
As the forms of an old world give way, consensus rationality decentralizes, and the formal ideals of a new personhood must now emerge, from within. This rebirth is also a renaissance of form.
Ancient philosophy was not strictly discursive, but ritually embodied, a liturgical form of knowledge1. This ancient orientation of philosophy addressed personhood in essence & nature directly, making it potent & real. Specialization has abstracted this potency. This separation of philosophy from metaphysics & personhood has called into question the definition of humanity.
This occurs amidst the collapse of liberal universalism, AI acceleration, cognitive atrophy, and the stagnation of the humanities. All this reinforces the institutional chasm between the soil of western tradition and the mind of a new generation. New models of philosophical application are needed to bridge this chasm, a new architecture capable of realizing philosophical potency & dynamically redefining personhood from within.
THEORIA
Divine Humanity: Hieratic Philosophy, a new universalism
Departing synthetically from philosophical traditionalism and Orthodox theology, my research now approaches a new school of philosophical universalism, what I call , a new hieratic philosophy.2
Designed for a new generation of western minds, hieratic philosophy is a philosophy of dynamic polarity. The hieratic (ἱερός) orientation recovers religious ontology & subjectivity, rooting philosophical metaphysics in personhood again.
Following the Patristic-Pseudo Dionysian-Russian Sophiological traditions, this project sets forth an integral theocosmism, a theandric vision of personhood. A renewal of the Western Subject is postulated metaphysically and civilizationally, through a philosophy of analogical wholeness.
For more, see project page or contact me.
Applied Philosophical Intelligence (API)
There is an underexamined contest emerging between two poles of cognition: AI & philosophy, with the rationality of the future at stake. This confrontation is happening over the rational form of thought, the word.
AI labs appear to be protocolizing, or applying philosophy3 to their models. This protocolization of philosophy makes it infrastructure. A“philosophical intelligence” layer in an institutional context. This quietly applies philosophical intelligence as a protocol, within & without AI.
Applied Philosophical intelligence (API) is exploratory research on philosophical intelligence as infrastructural layer and institutional protocol. This explores API protocols as a decentralized counterweight to AI & digital identity systems, and includes R&D of new institutional protocols.
PRAXIS
Experiments in Philosophical Modality
AXIOM is an exploratory R&D project aimed at prototyping modalities of applied philosophy derived in the context of philosophical universalism.
The self is made up on its growing edge, of “the models, forms, metaphors, and myths which give it direction in its self-creation” 3. This is a vector of identity ‘transformation’ in which philosophical potency may be realized through modal application at the highest level of formation: ontologically & phenomenologically.
I view Modalities as a ‘curatorial’ primitive of a new generation of technologies of the self 4. Technologies that make the ideal operative, symbolic and ecosystemic, rooting objective production within personhood and thought.
New Models of Cultural Production
This research builds on the curation modalities and explores new models of cultural production.
This involves prototyping a new “Maison” curation house, operating in a decentralized portfolio model. Similar to a creative label or fashion house 5, the house develops projects in seasons across two hieratic poles- the academy & the studio.
The academy is a new hieratic school of philosophy & aesthetics and forms the philosophical heart of the cultural model.
The syndicate is the creative heart of the house, it explores and develops novel aesthetic, economic, & symbolic worlds.
INQUIRIES
I am actively seeking patrons & institutional partnership for these focuses. For more information contact me.
- Ancient philosophy was considered an epistemic human science & a ritualized embodiment of divine knowledge structured as formation into “mysteries”. See Algis Uzdavinys: “Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth”
- “hieratic” was first used by Clement of Alexandria and denotes “priestly script”, it is derived from “hieros”-”sacred, priestly”
- Michael Millerman recently noted the monopoly of Analytic Philosophy within AI labs, with labs increasingly hiring philosophers.
- By “New” traditionalism I mean a new and original re-construction of the traditionalist school within “perennialism”
- Rollo May: “The Courage to Create” (1975)
- For more, See my work on Technologies of the Self, here and here.
- For more, see my 2024 whitepaper here.