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The Möbius Censor

What if the urge to make sense of things is itself a form of censorship? Traced through Nietzsche, Sade, Kosiński, and Bataille.

Written during Ada Palmer’s course on the history of censorship. Read in order. Then read again.

  1. I

    Before Thought Begins

  2. II

    Reflex Incarnate

  3. III

    Exhausted Structure

  4. IV

    A Madman’s Descent

  5. V

    A Strange, Hegelian Loop