press

forge

◇ mit
◎ urbanomic
☐ sequence
◎ re:press
◎ becoming
◎ meson
☐ punctum
◎ nero

crypt

◇ duke
☐ semiotext
☐ zone
△ spector
△ pragnesia
△ contra mundum
◎ open humanities
△ minor compositions
◎ time spiral press
erratum

lattice

△ cloak
▽ valiz
▽ sternberg
▽ onomatopee
△ jap sam
☐ zer0
▽ nightboat
☐ archive books
◇ bloomsbury
◇ wiley
▽ rollo
▽ inventory
◇ edinburgh
△ spiral
▽ coffee house
☐ art & theory
inside the castle

bastion

◇ cornell
▽ st. augustine’s
▽ brill
▽ peeters leuven
◇ northwestern
▽ notre dame
▽ angelico
◇ fordham
▽ duquesne

cathedral

◎ verso
◇ routledge
◇ polity
▽ oxford
☐ repeater
☐ seagull
☐ autonomedia
△ common notions
▽ primary information
detritus

periodical

forge

◎ antikherya
◎ ill-will
◎ krisis
◎ collapse
◎ qui parle
design issues
computational culture
stack
glass bead
n+1
catastrop(h)ic
splinter

crypt

◎ plutonics
◎ endnotes.
☐ parrhesia
◎ hostis
barricade
expat

lattice

△ e-flux
▽ cabinet
☐ šum
☐ blue labyrinths
◇ chôra
☐ ugly duckling
▽ frieze
▽ artforum

bastion

bastion
△ telos
△ compact
epoché
modern age
logos
philosophy today

cathedral

parallax
third text
between the lines
blackbox manifold
△ ak press
△ pm press
theory & event
☐ radical philosophy
new internationalist
☐ critical times
☐ critical inquiry
☐ identities
☐ differences
south end
tout fait
☐ constellations
angelaki
selvedge zone

platform

forge

▽ snav
nicolas villarreal
◎ graham harman
◎ peter wolfendale
◎ grant maxwell
generative ink
chaosmotics

crypt

◎ vergil
andrew kuiper
jonathan geltner
◎ levi bryant
☐ mark fisher
☐ matt colquhoun
◎ taylor adkins
☐ last positivist
shelley tremain
◎ hunt hendrix

lattice

☐ maxwell foley
▽ crysta

bastion

cathedral

☐ slavoj zizek
☐ devin goure
addison hart
tim troutner
jordan wood

preserve

forge

☐ anarchist library
◎ bureau of public secrets
◎ no subject

crypt

△ ubu
△ textz

lattice

bastion

cathedral

☐ marxists
☐ libcom
◎ criticism

the press is archetypally spearheaded by the cathedral, the historical form of the academy-church-postal, the global large-scale legitimating institution which combines scholastic bureaucracy with cultural hegemony and ecclestical authority, perpetuated by state funding and media. in my philosophy, crypts gave way too academies, which turned into cathedrals, morally paranoid institutions that constantly revise history in order to create discourses and disciplines which are supposed to give legitimacy to non-existent entities, in order for the cathedral to control resources over knowledge. originally moldbug’s term, ironically the cathedral itself is a paranoically perpetuated concept, however, its accurate precisely because cathedrals create generic discourse that has no value other than perpetuation. the cathedral is currently threated by all other social forms in contemporary society due to late modernity’s fragmentation of power. the paradigmatic cathedralist was probably aquinas himself, or, more recently, mbembe, chomsky and so on. cathedralists are primarily oriented around justice, such as marxists, jews, christians and so on. as it also happens however, presses are the most valid forms of publishing books due to the fact that a majority of books get sent to piracy networks and can actually be used and read, unlike a majority of periodicals, which are gatekept by bastions, a majority of preserves, which are gatekept by cathedrals, and a majority of platforms, which are gatekept by algorithms superimposed on top of the internet by corporations.note: every single one of synkar’s sociological forms can be located in every form of publication

periodicals are currently legitimized by forgeries, who were previously cryptological societies. crypts are subterranean proto-institutions which cultivate esoteric or marginal theory before institutional capture, usually cults or ritualistic organizations, but they can also be on the fringes of para-academia. crypts occur rarely because the more contained, consistent and lame forms of power contain talent away from its potential, usually by the promise of practical pleasures or goals, killing unique conceptual philosophy. there are fringe crypts at every point in time, but most of them rarely develop in the common consciousness, the last famous one being french poststructuralist or irrationalist circles some fourty years ago, who turned into celebrities that preserved collectives and movements over institutional legitimacy, or more recently the ccru. a lot of crypts cement into cathedrals later. forgeries on the other hand construct new operational epistemes through technical work, theyre transitionary stages between the formation of new cathedrals by a cryptological elite that sustains their work into infrastructural necessity. forgeries are rare because they require the fall of cathedrals, since they cant directly compete with established cathedralical zones. a recent paradigmatic cryptologist is someone like fisher, a recent paradigmatic forgerist is someone like bratton. cryptologists are primarily mystics, forgerists are primarily constructivists or scientologicalists.note: every single one of synkar’s sociological forms can be located in every form of publication

platforms are currently ran by lattices, which are post-cathedral dispersions enabled by network media, or in older times the post office; lattices are unconscious, fragmented and most of the time useless forms of knowledge, made up of decentralized liberal arts ecology, essentially, the philosophy of unconscious formation and regurgitation. lattices are simply a more decadent form of already decadent cathedrals, supported by various cathedral grants or brief cryptological remissions. lattices cant be forgeries, since forgeries usually see lattices with disdain due to their non infrastructural, uneventful and deweaponized paradigm. lattices often exist solely to give credibility to cathedrals, but sometimes its also made up of collectives who are attempting to establish themselves into lattices but are far too defocused to do so. lattices are also so fragmented that they no longer encompass simply the aim of knowledge formation, but are often times made up of genuine practitioners, clueless wanderers of the world that have no radical aim beyond tooting the horn of the various multiplicites the world presents before us. the lattice has no representative, its quite literally everywhere. but an example would be somebody like, say, mcluhan or butler. anyone in the world who doesn’t know where they are, or dont really have a name made for themselves are usually a part of the lattice by default. the lattice is a fringe made up of historical accidents, with no real teleological direction, only cope.note: every single one of synkar’s sociological forms can be located in every form of publication

preserves are archetypally gatekept by bastions, the historical form of the castle-library-fortress, which maintains inherited epistemic orders; legitimizes through tradition rather than novelty. however, what you’ll see on this website are mostly platformic and therefore lattice bastions, because actual bastions such as gutenberg, perseus or actual libraries and so fourth are simply far too large and concentrated to even matter for my project. the reason the bastion appears second chronologically after the cathedral is because the bastion was originally split off from the cathedral, itself being a brainchild of the aristocratic monarchy, who split off from the cathedral in order to create secret societies and esoteric cults that maintain power dynamics rather than rupturing them the way crypts would. the bastion is primarily revelatory and negative in nature, found today in snobby and salty conservative think-tanks, historically legitimized by figures close to the monarchy that reacted to various periods of dialectical progress with doubt, be it reactions against enlightenment rationalism, reactions against fascist ideology, fascist ideology itself which was a reaction to modernity, and so on. the paradigmatic bastionist is probably somewhere between a spengler and fourier, at any point in society. preservationalists are primarily fascistic in nature due to their authoritarian support-groups, but either way they are either the elite themselves, or supremacists of any kind.note: every single one of synkar’s sociological forms can be located in every form of publication