Daemon Maps
An Exploration in Reading and ThinkingA series of inquiries into knowledge and maps and claims and interpretations and objectivity and education and the sciences, happiness and narrative and agency and religion and chaos and critical thinking and politics.
“…for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.”
–LaPlace’s ‘Demon’
Daemon Maps: Suspicion of Metaphor
“All I need to know is if that low pressure system might create a tornado; stop telling me about the number of grandmothers per hectare!”
Daemon Maps – Repair Guy
Did they, in some coffee klatch somewhere, meet before marking this pathway to savings, to make a small quiet bet against themselves? Their kitchens were not my kitchens, their maps were not my reality, and they’d be damned if some commenters bombed their social media accounts.
Daemon Maps – An Introduction
We’ll call our exploration one of Daemon Maps, where any superior or superior inspiration guiding or discoverable by us (be it intentional, by D(d)esign, or by Law of Physics) is not necessarily ultimate, but graspable within our single local lifetimes.