the argument.
four prose pieces · one coda · read in order
The mathematics is the spine; the prose is the body. The two halves are not redundant. They are not summary and elaboration. The formalism is what makes the prose's structural claims refusable; the prose is what makes the formalism's structural claims sayable in the registers that have produced the readers the document is for.
The four pieces traverse cohort time forward: from the architecture's specification, through democratic substrate, through formation, to adult end-state. The coda turns back on the document itself — what it is, what it is not, what its open questions are, and the position from which it closes. The pieces are not independent essays but registers of a single argument.
the closed-loop libidinal economy
I.the framework laid out in prose: closure, foreclosure, the three modes
the loop · v 0.6
the citizen after the pause
II.adolescence-as-class, the foreclosure of democratic substrate, the political form already present
the citizen · v 0.2
adolescence without outside
III.the native cohort, the inheritance that vanished, the open question of Mode C
the cohort · v 0.2
the sincere captives
IV.the LinkedIn fanatic, the post-cynical professional, the foreclosure of Mode C at the limit
the captive · v 0.2
a note on what this document is
Coda.the document as Mode-B artifact; the open questions, named; the closing position
the coda · v 0.1
the companion document
the mathematics
the formal apparatus: lemmas, theorems, propositions, explicit assumptions, open questions. The proofs the prose's claims rest on.
reading list
the works the framework draws on — Adorno, Marcuse, Stiegler, Han, Crary, Lyotard, Deleuze, Mannheim, Sloterdijk, Burroughs — plus the mathematical references (Asmussen, Kallenberg, Kuramoto, Hawkes) and contemporary work the diagnostic builds on or argues against.
open questions
ten open questions named explicitly as research targets — three formal mathematical (math doc §8), two structural-empirical from the prose, five where the empirical record is genuinely thin. Each with what would refute, what would confirm.