The floor is not load-bearing.
Aile
Everything downstream is a rumour of something upstream.
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Texte · 4 100 mots · 2026 · folio 1/2
Nobody trades the rate. They trade the dollar that fears the rate, the metal that distrusts the dollar, the coin that mimics the metal — and at the far end of the corridor, ten thousand small tokens that have never met any of them. By the time the impulse arrives it is not information. It is weather.
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Texte · 4 100 mots · 2026 · folio 2/2
Every coupling in the chain absorbs some of the fact and re-emits it as mood. The question worth a decade of attention is not what the fact was — it is how much of it survives each body.
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Étude · chandelles et absence · 2026
From the artist’s private ledger.
Transmission
Son · 2′40″ · en réserve
Transmission
Instrument · taux, dollar, métal, code · 2024–
Aile
What you keep saying, you were given.
Inheritance
Texte · lexique · 2026 · folio 1/2
芽, sprout: the grass radical laid over 牙, tooth. A shoot is grass biting upward through soil — a fossil of someone, three thousand years ago, kneeling close enough to notice that emergence looks like appetite.
Inheritance
Texte · lexique · 2026 · folio 2/2
Latin reaches the same result from the other side: germinare shares blood with germanus, of the same parents. Both were describing inheritance and calling it spring.
Inheritance
Ailleurs · neuf leçons, d’une autre main
Tout ce qui suit en descend.
Ailleurs ↗Inheritance
Artefact génératif · d’après Mondrian, d’après un tutoriel
Rebattu à chaque toucher. Trois couleurs, jamais les mêmes cases.
Inheritance
Texte · série · Ésope, revisité
Aile
Hold the keys lightly, and hold them.
Sovereignty
Texte · doctrine · 2026 · folio 1/2
A seventeenth-century crown needed ships it did not own, crewed by men it did not trust, in waters it could not see — and it needed the outcomes without the custody. Its answer was a document.
Sovereignty
Texte · doctrine · 2026 · folio 2/2
Every credential I issue to an untrusted machine is a letter of marque. Bounded purpose. Named bearer. Revocable at the source.
Sovereignty
Document · git, ratifié quotidiennement
Sovereignty
Instrument · un proxy qui ne garde rien
Sovereignty
Expérience vécue · quatre heures, huit coups · en cours
L’instrument est un téléphone. Le cadran a été retiré.
A watch is four hours. A bell every half hour, cumulative, so the count climbs to eight and then the watch closes and the counting starts over. Nobody aboard is ever told the hour. Everybody aboard always knows it.
The tones are mine and the watches are not quite the sea’s. The arithmetic went first. Then the wanting to know went, which was the point, and also the part that cannot be shown to anyone.
Sovereignty
Expérience vécue · une disposition refusée · en cours
Le clavier était un compromis avec une machine morte en 1890.
Aile
Luck, witnessed, becomes fate.
Chance
Instrument génératif · toucher pour engager
Chance
Instrument · quatre piliers, horodatés
Chance
Étude · la valeur des mots peu dits
Aile
The shadow does not negotiate.
Duration
Artefact génératif · un anneau, cent fois déformé
Le premier. Conservé pour cette raison seule.
Duration
Texte · 2 300 mots · depuis 1998 · folio 1/2
Every unpublished draft is a small preserved death. The folder keeps them the way an ossuary keeps femurs: in perfect order, going nowhere.
Duration
Texte · 2 300 mots · depuis 1998 · folio 2/2
Publishing is pruning. If it was worth the evening, it is worth the daylight.
Duration
Archive · un adolescent, en public
Duration
Coupe · du signal à la quille
Aile
Everything here is still running.
Works
Jouable · quelques règles, beaucoup de conséquences
Le sujet entre, puis n’arrête plus d’entrer.
Entrer ↗Works
Jouable · anthologie · un seul nombre, poussé trop loin
Encore une victoire comme celle-ci et nous sommes perdus.
Entrer ↗Works
Atlas · mécanisme d’horlogerie, pour le ciel
Les planètes sont en laiton. L’échelle est un mensonge.
Entrer ↗Works
Jouable · une vingtaine d’outils, quinze jours
Écrit pour des cousins qui ne liront pas ceci.
Entrer ↗Works
Annoncé · sans date d’ouverture
The building could not be simplified. It had been made to be entered and not to be left, and the men who built it were a long time dead.
What she handed him at the door was not a plan of it. It was a thread, and the whole of the instruction was to keep hold of one end.
— after Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VIII
Works
Annoncé · date non fixée
Everyone along the route could see. Not one of them would be the first, because the price of being first was to be the only one, and so the procession went the whole way and the cheering never once faltered.
Then a child said the plain thing, and the crowd heard its own voice come back to it out of a stranger’s mouth.
— after Hans Christian Andersen, Kejserens nye Klæder, 1837
Works
En préparation · sans vitrine
The cicada had not been idle. It had been loud, and the whole field could testify to the summer it made. What it had not been was early.
The ant was given no gift the cicada lacked. It had a calendar, and the calendar had been nailed up in the open the entire time.
— after Aesop, “The Ant and the Cicada”
Works
En préparation · atelier fermé
Ordinary cooks change knives every month, because they hack. Good ones change them once a year, because they cut. Nineteen years he has had this one, and thousands of oxen have gone under it, and the edge is as though it had just come off the stone.
He waits for the seam and goes in where there is already room. The blade has no thickness. That is why nothing of it has been used up.
— after Zhuangzi, chapter 3, “The Secret of Caring for Life”
Works
Annoncé · non exposé
He had leather enough for one pair left and no way to buy more. He cut it out at evening and went to bed poor, and by morning the shoes stood finished on the bench, stitched finer than his own hands could stitch them.
It went on that way for exactly as long as he did not watch. The night he hid at the window to see whose work it was, the work was done for the last time.
— after the Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen, no. 39
Phantogram — Black Out Days