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soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 5, 2026
Identity: still me, somehow
A barebones vectorial version of me stares back from the screen. The skin has dissolved into planes. Texture has gone. Pores, lines, scars, fatigue - all the small evidence that a face has passed through time - have been cleared away. And yet I remain recognisable. Apparently identity survives a surprising amount of deletion. Leave...
identityperception
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 2, 2026
What Happens When Your Notes Talk Back?
I returned to Sönke Ahrens’s How to Take Smart Notes with a different question from the one I brought to it the first time. The Textual Underground already existed: an Obsidian vault containing years of notes, journal entries, reading highlights, unfinished essays, old obsessions, and ideas whose energy I could still feel even though I...
Artificial IntelligenceNiklas Luhmann
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 3, 2026
The Golden Apple Has Entered the Server Room
A discord transmission from the point where magic, media language, pattern recognition and the Guerrilla Blogger interfere with one another.
Erisguerrilla blogging
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 30, 2026
Working Notes from the Textual Underground: Weekly Notes #001
24–29 August 2026 Editor’s note I had coffee with Dave, on Friday, in a small-town café in the middle of nowhere. During the conversation, something came to light that I already knew but hadn’t had a chance to follow up on yet. Subscribers to Soulcruzer receive an email whenever I publish something in the main...
reality tunnelstextual underground
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 8, 2026
We talk about consuming books, as though reading …
We talk about consuming books, as though reading were a kind of nutritional exercise: pages in, knowledge out. But the best reading has never felt like consumption to me. It feels more like entering into correspondence with another consciousness across space and time. A conversation where one voice has the strange advantage of having thought...
AttentionBooks
soulcruzer
soulcruzerJul 27, 2026
Rheingold’s Tools for Thought has me asking an …
Rheingold's Tools for Thought has me asking an old question again:: what are computers for? For a long time the answer seemed settled. Computers were calculators, then office machines, then portals into a giant shopping centre with a comment section. We learned to treat them as appliances that happened to demand more and more of...
AIHoward Rheingold
soulcruzer
soulcruzerJun 24, 2026
Welcome to the Textual Underground
What appears here as a blog post usually began somewhere less presentable. A sentence in a daily note. A line spoken into a recorder while walking. A paragraph abandoned three years ago. A highlight from a book I wasn't expecting to matter. A half-formed thought dropped into Obsidian before it could evaporate. A conversation with...
ObsidianRhizome

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