The Geometry of Violence

The Geometry of Violence

Various, consolidatedI want to say something specific about war, because I have been in enough of them to have a basis for the observation that is not theoretical.The reasons given for wars change. The configuration of the wars does not change as much as the changing...
The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

Present Day, March 2026For centuries I documented in journals. The journals from my early years in Florence are careful and specific: names, dates, conversations, the details of events that I suspected would be significant before I could be certain they were. The...
The Testimony Prepared

The Testimony Prepared

Present Day, March 2026The album is called The Geometry of Ruin. It is not a pleasant title. It was not designed to be pleasant. It was designed to be accurate.I have been watching the geometry for five centuries. The geometry is not the collapse itself: it is the...
I Am Not a Prophet

I Am Not a Prophet

Present Day, March 2026I want to be precise about what I am and what I am not, because the word prophet has been used about me in ways that I need to correct.A prophet is someone who receives information about the future from a source that is not available to ordinary...
Blueprints of Eternity

Blueprints of Eternity

Various, consolidatedI have a specific memory that I return to when I want to understand what architectural certainty looks like from the inside. It is not from Florence. It is from Vienna, in the 1850s, watching the planners of the Ringstrasse explain to each other...