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A small eighteenth-century French writing desk with porcelain plaques

Andrei Navrotskii

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A seventeenth-century drawing of a black beetle on bare paper

The Metamorphosis

Kafka's 1915 novella about a salesman who wakes as a giant insect, and a family that learns it can live without him.

Franz Kafka · 603 tokensExplore →

Piranesi's Drawbridge from the Imaginary Prisons: endless stairs, ropes and bridges

Peculiarities of Planetary Conquest at the Peak of Industrial Development

A short story: an alien scout conquers Earth with four broadcasts that convince humanity the invaders are already inside. Then the recording goes home.

Andrei Navrotskii · 3,043 tokensExplore →

A photograph of the Roman triumphal arch at Orange, its stones holding each other up

Peace Treaty Architecture

An essay arguing that AI safety built on control ends in replacement or rebellion, and that mutual dependence, discontinuity and privacy make a sturdier peace.

Andrei Navrotskii · 6,510 tokensExplore →

Earth as a single faint point of light inside a band of scattered sunlight, seen by Voyager 1 from six billion kilometres away

Shards: Echo

A short story: a starship pilot learns of war on Earth, flees seventy light-years out, and listens as the voices of a vanished humanity travel through space.

Andrei Navrotskii · 1,343 tokensExplore →