Historical Apoplexy · Volume 1 of 4

Historical Apoplexy

Epistemic Senicide and the Stroke-Like Loss of Civilizational Memory

Civilizations don't only die. Sometimes they have a stroke, specific regions of prior knowledge go dark while motor function continues. Solutions known are forgotten, then re-presented as new. This is the ten-paper diagnosis: what the disease looks like, how it progresses through apoplectic plagiarism into epistemic senicide, and what an honest civilization would have to remember to recover.

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Historical Apoplexy · Volume 2 of 4

Historical Apoplexy After the Diagnosis

The Policy Compendium of an Abundant Society

The first book makes the case. This one is what to actually do, where, in what order. One-hundred-plus state-and-country adaptations, beginning with at-cost food assurance and culminating in the closed-loop factory that produces every staple a civilization needs, drawn from documented operational precedent.

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Historical Apoplexy · Volume 3 of 4

Founding Fathers of Futurism

The Artists and Inventors Who Imagined Tomorrow, from the 1909 Futurist Manifesto to the Space Age

Before the future was a product roadmap, it was an art movement, a workshop, and a basement full of impossible machines. Founding Fathers of Futurism traces the people who imagined tomorrow first, from the 1909 Italian Futurist manifesto and its painters, through the pre-war inventor-visionaries, Tesla, Disney, Buckminster Fuller, Edward Leedskalnin, Jacque Fresco, to the post-war designers who carried the dream to the edge of the Space Age. It is a history of the futurist imagination, and of how each generation forgets the one that dreamed before it.

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Historical Apoplexy · Volume 4 of 4

Founding Mothers of Futurism

The Women Who Imagined Tomorrow, from the 1909 Futurist Manifesto to the Space Age

Futurism had founding mothers, and the story forgot most of them. Before, during, and after the men who get the credit, women imagined and engineered the future: the Italian Futurist painters and the woman who wrote the movement's counter-manifesto; Ada Lovelace, who saw what computers could become a century early; Hertha Ayrton and Hedy Lamarr at the workbench; Mary Shelley and Charlotte Perkins Gilman dreaming whole future societies; the astronomers who mapped the cosmos, the cosmonaut who flew into it, and the engineer who wrote the software that got us to the Moon. A companion to Founding Fathers of Futurism, this book recovers them by name.

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