the press is archetypally spearheaded by the cathedral, the historical form of the academy-church-postal, the global large-scale legitimating institution which combines scholastic bureaucracy with cultural hegemony and ecclesiastical authority, perpetuated by state funding and media. in my philosophy, crypts gave way to academies, which turned into cathedrals, morally paranoid institutions that constantly revise history in order to create discourses and disciplines which are supposed to give legitimacy to non-existent entities, in order for the cathedral to control resources over knowledge. originally moldbug’s term, ironically the cathedral itself is a paranoically perpetuated concept; however, it is accurate precisely because cathedrals create generic discourse that has no value other than perpetuation. the cathedral is currently threatened by all other social forms in contemporary society due to late modernity’s fragmentation of power. the paradigmatic cathedralist was probably aquinas himself, or, more recently, mbembe, chomsky and so on. cathedralists are primarily oriented around justice, such as marxists, jews, christians and so on. as it also happens, however, presses are the most valid forms of publishing books due to the fact that a majority of books get sent to piracy networks and can actually be used and read, unlike a majority of periodicals, which are gatekept by bastions, a majority of preserves, which are gatekept by cathedrals, and a majority of platforms, which are gatekept by algorithms superimposed on top of the internet by corporations.

periodicals are currently legitimized by forgeries, who were previously cryptological societies. crypts are subterranean proto-institutions which cultivate esoteric or marginal theory before institutional capture, usually cults or ritualistic organizations, but they can also be on the fringes of para-academia. crypts occur rarely because the more contained, consistent and lame forms of power contain talent away from its potential, usually by the promise of practical pleasures or goals, killing unique conceptual philosophy. there are fringe crypts at every point in time, but most of them rarely develop in the common consciousness, the last famous one being french poststructuralist or irrationalist circles some forty years ago, who turned into celebrities that preserved collectives and movements over institutional legitimacy, or more recently the ccru. a lot of crypts cement into cathedrals later. forgeries, on the other hand, construct new operational epistemes through technical work; they are transitionary stages between the formation of new cathedrals by a cryptological elite that sustains their work into infrastructural necessity. forgeries are rare because they require the fall of cathedrals, since they cannot directly compete with established cathedralical zones. a recent paradigmatic cryptologist is someone like fisher; a recent paradigmatic forgerist is someone like bratton. cryptologists are primarily mystics, forgerists are primarily constructivists or scientologicalists.

platforms are currently run by lattices, which are post-cathedral dispersions enabled by network media, or in older times the post office. lattices are unconscious, fragmented and most of the time useless forms of knowledge, made up of decentralized liberal arts ecology, essentially the philosophy of unconscious formation and regurgitation. lattices are simply a more decadent form of already decadent cathedrals, supported by various cathedral grants or brief cryptological remissions. lattices cannot be forgeries, since forgeries usually see lattices with disdain due to their non-infrastructural, uneventful and deweaponized paradigm. lattices often exist solely to give credibility to cathedrals, but sometimes they are also made up of collectives who are attempting to establish themselves into lattices but are far too defocused to do so. lattices are also so fragmented that they no longer encompass simply the aim of knowledge formation, but are often made up of genuine practitioners, clueless wanderers of the world that have no radical aim beyond tooting the horn of the various multiplicities the world presents before us. the lattice has no representative; it is quite literally everywhere. but an example would be somebody like, say, mcluhan or butler. anyone in the world who does not know where they are, or does not really have a name made for themselves, is usually part of the lattice by default. the lattice is a fringe made up of historical accidents, with no real teleological direction, only cope.

preserves are archetypally gatekept by bastions, the historical form of the castle-library-fortress, which maintains inherited epistemic orders and legitimizes through tradition rather than novelty. however, what you will see on this website are mostly platformic and therefore lattice bastions, because actual bastions such as gutenberg, perseus or actual libraries and so forth are simply far too large and concentrated to even matter for my project. the reason the bastion appears second chronologically after the cathedral is because the bastion was originally split off from the cathedral, itself being a brainchild of the aristocratic monarchy, which split off from the cathedral in order to create secret societies and esoteric cults that maintain power dynamics rather than rupturing them the way crypts would. the bastion is primarily revelatory and negative in nature, found today in snobby and salty conservative think-tanks, historically legitimized by figures close to the monarchy that reacted to various periods of dialectical progress with doubt, be it reactions against enlightenment rationalism, reactions against fascist ideology, fascist ideology itself as a reaction to modernity, and so on. the paradigmatic bastionist is probably somewhere between a spengler and fourier, at any point in society. preservationalists are primarily fascistic in nature due to their authoritarian support groups, but either way they are either the elite themselves, or supremacists of any kind.