It is difficult to encapsulate the overarching theme of a body of writing so multifaceted as my own has tended, to wrangle it into some semblance of coherence out of what is at bottom the reflection of a divergent mind. It is perhaps all the more difficult to do otherwise as my veritable cornucopia of attempts would however attest. Indeed might my approach seem a folly for its apparent lack of focus. What I cannot deny myself to indulge is that my course and way about it has developed toward something rather more singular, though certainly not yet fully realized. The latest outlet for this singularity of purpose I have hitherto neglected to address in any direct fashion is a publication I have pursued under the name of Weaponize!:

https://mirror.xyz/weaponiz.eth

Yet this is not its first form, as a longer-lived and (somewhat) more widely read incarnation still persists, though I know not for how long. What is certain is my indelible preference for the nature of this particular platform (muggles be damned) as well this publication’s deep affinity for the approach enabled by way of that selfsame platform, an affinity which has and should find further voice through it’s more tech-oriented outlet or column under the name of theExpeditionarian. Yet this platform is not of itself wholly sufficient to the needs of this publication, which to some degree are better-served elsewhere (namely in the lack of capacity for contextualization, likewise that of editorial governance by way of a multisignatory approach), yet it is nevertheless the most adequate as better-established and more featureful than its alternatives.

In order to compensate for a certain lack of richness in possibilities for contextualization, I have opted for something of a hack in my approach: I have simply selected an EOA to act as stand-in for a multisig (and made it controller of the domain associated with that role) but leave the brunt (if not all) of publication to contributors enabled through that EOA, namely myself as well as my more literary alter-ego. To get around the lack of any intrinsic means of categorization, I have opted for dedicated rolling curatorial posts assigned to each of the columns currently represented by the content published thus-far (with but one yet unrepresented):

https://mirror.xyz/weaponiz.eth/VcvzLGcBYdXl_84qzplfcn8FXS6X9tNPfW2czutN9mg

https://mirror.xyz/weaponiz.eth/-AGNWFN3JJHMj8BvnrJez5d5s_m_wh_VSqRig8QgrpI

https://mirror.xyz/weaponiz.eth/8xbHyT2N1cIOOn4kRcd30mUhVWbrdZFQpdbNfWNraF8

As with any posts on this platform, these curatorial posts are collectible, which means that apart from simply subscribing to the publication, one could collect a column of particular interest by proxy of its curatorial post, which can then be revisited from one’s collection to discover any updates thereto. This is clearly very much a hack and far from ideal, but it also suggests a latent potential for this or some future platform to pursue; one I would be inclined to dub as Roam-like publication in which posts of any kind can be deeply referential, but that’s a topic for a future article.

It occurs to me that I’ve been remiss here, as elsewhere, in characterizing the nature and purpose of Weaponize! which, while I fancy either as immanently evident, can certainly bear to hazard some modicum of clarification. To that end would I claim it as inspired in equal parts by the likes of the Vorticist publication BLAST, Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (which took its name from the secret society to which its production was owed), and the revolutionary newspaper Iskra (all with perhaps no small aspiration toward something like a hybrid of Mondo 2000 and the CCRU). The topics of this publication include the exploration of creative and infrastructural tech bearing no small degree of radical import, political economy, critical theory, as well as all manner of (largely transgressive) art, literature, and philosophy.

Lofty as these aspirations seem, it should be said that in this current considerably pupal stage of the publication’s development, it is indeed merely a pet-project of sorts and an outlet for work of mine which might otherwise go unpublished, owed in part to an aversion toward simply attributing that work to a personal authorial “brand.” But it does indeed want to extend beyond this status and really only captures the imagination of its creator in that capacity. All that can be done in the intervening period is to endow it an editorial style and aesthetic spirit and thereby form of it some discernible character to grow beyond such endowment as be merely attributable to its creator in that regard; indeed is its trajectory fixed upon this greater aspiration, and yet more its still greater, still loftier impetus:

𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 “𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 — 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭.