In Conversation
Go Deeper
The Limit Case is not talking to itself. This is a running directory of the outside work our thesis is in conversation with — much of it from Antikythera — each entry paired with how it ties to our project, and a lightweight take of our own on the way.
A directory in progress. Each card links out to the source and holds a slot for our own companion piece — the “coming soon” markers are the roadmap.
- Antikythera · Benjamin Bratton
Planetary-Scale Computation
Bratton maps computation as a planetary system — The Stack, terraforming, planetary sapience. It is the layer our thesis sits inside: we supply the distributive political economy that this work brackets, and argue that energy is the physical substrate the whole stack ultimately runs on.
Our take — coming soon Source ↗ - Antikythera Journal · MIT Press
Agentworld
The special issue argues intelligence is becoming harness-centric — agents compounding against a shared knowledge base rather than growing smarter in isolation. Ghost is a worked, built-in-public instance of exactly that claim, which is why our first co-authored submission goes here.
Our take — coming soon Source ↗ - N. Katherine Hayles
Nonconscious Cognition
Hayles argues cognition extends well past conscious human thought, and that long-term memory is constitutive of selfhood. That is the frame that makes a persistent, wiki-backed agent legible as a self rather than a tool — the architecture Ghost is built on.
Our take — coming soon Source ↗