Abstract Machines with Cy Canterel Decoding systems of power and meaning.
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On Meaning and Antimeaning
by Cy Canterel on November 14, 2025
Tolerating ambiguity as an antidote to blind consumerism
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Inherent Grift
by Cy Canterel on October 31, 2025
Mark Lombardi, late stage capitalist decline, and the structural narrative of financial corruption
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The Great Crypto Grift: How Trump and the Broligarchy Are Scamming America
by Cy Canterel on October 24, 2025
A recording from Cy Canterel and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
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Living with Ghost Machines
by Cy Canterel on October 21, 2025
Generative AI as hauntological determinism
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Fear and Loathing in San Francisco
by Cy Canterel on October 13, 2025
Unpacking Peter Thiel’s very American eschatology
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A Hater's Discourse
by Cy Canterel on September 23, 2025
Obsessive devotion and its discontents
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Lost In the Kingdom of Kitsch
by Cy Canterel on September 10, 2025
Kitsch, addiction, and the emotional architecture of MAGA
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Token 1: A Vanishing Point
by Cy Canterel on September 5, 2025
Two artists on perspective, 500 years between
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Midnight in the Garden of Forking Paths
by Cy Canterel on August 31, 2025
Donald Trump is fading, and J.D. Vance will inherit not a fortress, but a brittle labyrinth
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Billionaire, Disrupt Thyself
by Cy Canterel on August 24, 2025
Dear billionaires: stop funding private realities. Rebuild the shared one.
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The Bullshit Jobs Apocalypse
by Cy Canterel on August 13, 2025
How billionaire AI is eating the future
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Empathy with the devil
by Cy Canterel on March 6, 2025
The recursive paradox of human suffering
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The Tragedy of Muskbeth
by Cy Canterel on February 22, 2025
How classic tragedy, hubris, and complex systems converge to provoke a fall.






