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Babble, Babel, ... Asemics / EZE, 2026
Asemics is not about non-sense per se, but it is about making relationships, often by way of disparate mapping.
Hence, asemic writing is often a mapping of writing, which usually concerns language, to the graphic.
Yet this type of mapping sometimes escapes the linguistic aspect of writing entirely, and once the linguistic is escaped, the basis for interpreting an asemic communication as non-sense is also escaped.
How so?
In the case of asemic writing where writing becomes art, asemics often forces a genre shift.
As such, an asemic mapping does not necessarily produce non-sense because the terms for non-sense (writing as an act of communication based in language) have shifted to writing as an act of art.
Art allows for non-sense in a way writing does not?
Paradox too is a different context for something very much like non-sense.
Consider Zeno's Arrow Paradox in regard to the distance an arrow travels: the mathematical explanation entails that the arrow never reaches its target. The explanation offered by physics dissolves the paradox.
Hence, a genre shift allows us to escape a basis and thereby resolve a disparity invoked by a basis.
But what of this question in a different direction where asemics begins with something non-sensical and then re-maps it?
The outcomes here are multiple.
We often produce meaning from non-sense, and we would thereby have sense construed from non-sense.
But we might also have non-sense as our outcome.
And then too, we might have an asemic outcome with the meaning of this act left in question.
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Predatory Hegemon in a Toy Kingdom / EZE, 2026
Do toys have lives?
And what about people?
AI Overeview
Toy Story narratives are fundamentally about the cutthroat politics of securing loyalty and affection within a competitive, closed society.
A Machiavellian reading of
Toy Story positions Woody not as a selfless leader, but as an insecure autocrat wielding power to maintain his status. Driven by the fear of replacement, Woody manipulates the toy society, employing authoritarian tactics to secure his position as Andy’s favorite. His initial actions against Buzz Lightyear mirror the political maneuvering of a ruler eliminating a rival to maintain control over his "kingdom".Woody as the Prince: Woody operates as a ruler who prioritizes maintaining his power (Andy's love) above all else. His authority is absolute, with other toys acting as subordinates in a small, closed, "tribal" system, a dynamic similar to the authoritarianism discussed in the context of political power.
The Threat of the New: Buzz Lightyear represents a "new prince"—a disruptor threatening the established order. Woody’s hostile, Machiavellian reaction is to manipulate and neutralize this threat rather than foster a cooperative environment.
The Machiavellian Dilemma: Woody's actions are driven by fear—specifically of being irrelevant or replaced—prompting him to take drastic, often unethical, measures to retain his position, which highlights the central Machiavellian tenet that it is safer to be feared than loved, although he ultimately seeks to be both.
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An Asemics of Writing ... / EZE, 2026
Notice, if you will, the phrasing of the title, not "Asemic Writing," which tends to specify a type of asemic practice usually related to the production of art, but "An Asemics of Writing," which is more about the analysis of writing and of communication in general.
From Cecil Touchon: English as a 2nd Lanaguage .
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Breaking Tendons / EZE, 2026
Concept crush ...
The fissure-scissor-fray of connective tissue ...
The End of Rules-Based International Order?
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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The Asemics of Winning / EZE, 2026
The urine in the trough flowed freely.
The stench in the pigsty was awful, but the wisdom was that there will be pretty things that sparkle.
"That is a stream that sometimes shares its color with the sun," said the government official.
"Only when the light returns," said the oracle. "And it reeks no less."
The prisoners in the parking lot pointed to the sky.
"What are you listening to?" asked the spy. "I hear nothing."
"Hello people," said King Midas. "I like winning."
Indeed, King Midas, everything is golden now.
For winning makes a golden calf, but brings no meat to the table,
And bread alone is outrageous.
The prisoners in the parking lot, the face of malnourishment.
Noli me tangere echoes a Latin Jesus.
Friday, January 16, 2026
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
Asemics of a Political Self / EZE, 2026
~ Disjunction! ~
It takes finding a certain sameness to define a political self, but self often implies an actor with purpose, and yet, for the actor-narrator, politician or not, there is a power in the ability to keep telling stories, whatever other purpose the stories may have.
~ Disjunction! ~
~ Disjunction! ~
Definition is a return to a certain sameness.
Direction is about a path.
A development is a path through time.
Teleology is a path with a time-bound end: the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, the butterfly.
The relationship of these states requires a sense of connectedness:
~ Disjunction! ~
And what is method for a story-teller wanting to stay alive?
To tell more stories?
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And for those who want to delay the seemingly inevitable:
~ Disjunction! ~
But then there is also:
~ Disjunction! ~
Human Sacrifice Was a Developmental Stage?
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Is Human Sacrifice Necessarily a Religious Act?
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Limitations on Human Sacrifice?
~ Disjunction! ~
But what is a teleology for a fictional serial killer?
To make a new self? ~ To make a new skin? ~ To transform?
~ Disjunction! ~
~ Disjunction! ~
~ Disjunction! ~
Human Sacrifice as Crisis Management
~ Disjunction! ~
Villian Victim Hero All at Once
~ Disjunction! ~
Trust Over Accountability, Honesty, and Other Nice-To-Have's as Discourse Is a Form of War
~ Disjunction! ~
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~ Disjunction! ~
~ Disjunction! ~
Thursday, January 8, 2026
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