Twilight of the Legible

Part 1: Memories of Europe

  1. Das Manifest für die Angemessene Verwaltung von Vorhaben The Manifesto for the Appropriate Administration of Undertakings Drafted at the Café Central, Vienna, February 2001, over the course of seventeen afternoons
  2. Applied Solaristics A Survey of the Interpretive Disciplines Surrounding the Manifesto Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Emmerich Tarnów-Weigl, Institut für Angewandte Solaristik, Universität Wien · Vierteljahrsschrift für Methodenhermeneutik und Verwaltungsphilosophie, Vol. XLIII, No. 2
  3. Geschichten von der Neigung Tales from the Slope: Field Reports in the Practice of Appropriate Administration A companion volume to Das Manifest, compiled by the Standing Committee on Practical Experience, with foreword by Hofrat Dipl.-Ing. K. Wittgenstein
  4. Horace Milnof

Part 2: Organizational Topologies

  1. The Correct Line A History of Software Development at the Adelante Collective, 2018–2025
  2. Team Ownership as Feudal Tenure A Weberian Reading of Service Architecture
  3. Core Topology Notes on Organisational Structure at a Company Where Everything Is Called Core
  4. limpbiz-kit The Story of Our Most Critical Internal Package
  5. Agentic Development Best Practices for the AI-Native Organization Engineering Excellence Division · Version 2.1 – Q1 2026

Part 3: Fictional Languages and Systems

  1. Rhizome A History of the Programming Language That Replaced Trees with Webs Dr. Elsa Kinnunen, Aalto University · Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on the History of Programming Languages (HOPL-IV), 2026
  2. Perpetua A Language Without Termination Dr. Veronika Seifert, Faculty of Persistent Computation, ETH Zürich · Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Circular Semantics (ESCS), Delft, 2025

Part 4: Ethnographic Encounters

  1. Bear Programming The National Sport of Finland
  2. Among the Deployers Notes on Software Production and Kinship Obligation in the Tëkël of the Upper Orinoco Dr. Harriet Lyle-Bourdieu, Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics · Journal of Material Culture, vol. 29, no. 3
  3. The Madman of Shiraz The Life and Misappropriation of Abd al-Qahar al-Faragh

Part 5: The Averaging

  1. The Averaging How a Simple Algorithm Promised to Transform Humanity and Delivered Something Else By Petra Lindqvist | The Atlantic Monthly | March 2026
  2. Slope One as Cultural Engine On the Use of Collaborative Filtering for the Generative Production of Cultural Artifacts Dr. Henrik Lassfolk, Institute for Applied Recommendation, Turku · with a response by Prof. Matti Koskinen, Sibelius Academy · Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Workshop on Algorithmic Culture (NorAlgKul), Turku, 2024

Part 6: The Recording-Production Problem

  1. Recording-Production, Solaristics, Kitsch, and the Miraculating Machine On the structural parallels between Lem’s Solaris, Kundera’s kitsch, the early Wittgenstein, and Deleuze & Guattari’s second synthesis
  2. On the Heat Death of Writing Appended to the proceedings of no conference

Part 7: The AI Pastiches

  1. Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia
  2. Solaris
  3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  4. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  5. Recording-Production, Solaristics, Kitsch & the Miraculating Machine

Part 8: Therapy

  1. Sitzungsprotokoll Session Transcript Dr. med. univ. Theodor Leuze · Facharzt für Nervenheilkunde und Methodische Störungen · Berggasse 21, Wien IX · (One door down from the more famous practice. Better pastry selection.)

A collection of satirical essays on technology, bureaucracy, and the organisations that produce both.