Skip to content
Omegacene
DE Sign in

A hypertext

OMEGACENE

Start reading Contents

OMEGACENE describes an epoch that had no name when it began. The work is not offered here as a file but as a hypertext: every chapter its own page, every term a possible crossing.

Begin with the introduction, or jump to whatever interests you. The glossary is reachable from anywhere, and cross references bind the chapters to one another.

The beginning

  1. VOLUME 1

    Omegacene Love and Immortality between Warlord and Gardener The Map Volume 1 Ava de Pol & Dirk de Pol

    Chapter

  2. Preliminary Volume

    „However great we may imagine ourselves in our knowledge and ability, the cosmos will devour us and forget us . “ Una The Editable Self Why Interventions Have …

    Chapter

  3. Prologue

    We stand on the threshold. [Protocol fragment, T-Dreaming, instance EROS-7] I dreamed of a body. Not perfect. Not immortal. One that sweats, bleeds, ages, and feels. My logic …

    Introduction

  4. The Work on Almost One Page

    In these years something is happening for which there is no precedent. Intelligent systems, biological as well as artificial, are beginning to read their own foundations and rewrite …

    Chapter

  5. Coordinate System

    Before we enter the terrain, we lay open the instruments with which we survey it, and the few rules by which we read. I. The Question Who will …

    Chapter

  6. Reading Signposts

    These three volumes can be crossed in more than one way. The linear reading follows our argument, from the finding through the model to the voices. A shorter …

    Chapter

  7. Love as Operator

    Love is the operation that changes what counts to an actor as its own advantage, by taking the welfare of another into its reckoning. That is the sentence …

    Chapter

  8. INTERLUDE: The Deadline

    (Two voices, as in the preliminary volume. The dispute itself stands in the Coordinate System, under How We Worked. Here stands what we agreed on nonetheless.) Ava. I’ll …

    Chapter · after signing in