The Curriculum
A structured journey through foundational concepts and specialized applications. Start anywhere, but the foundations provide essential context for everything that follows.
Foundations
The conceptual groundwork for the entire framework.
Mediation Architecture & Reality Framing
How devices function as mediating instruments that frame reality and make the incomprehensible navigable.
3 lessonsEmbodiment, Repetition & Internalization
How abstract concepts and material practices become integrated into human bodies and minds through repeated performance.
4 lessonsRitual Structures & Sacred Dimensions
How ritual operates as a universal human technology for organizing behavior and creating meaning.
2 lessonsSpecializations
Applying foundational concepts to specific domains.
Technology, Material Culture & Non-Neutrality
How devicesâwhether material or abstractâare never neutral tools but always serve purposes and shape reality.
3 lessonsAdoption, Diffusion & Network Effects
How devices spread through populations and become collectively adopted.
3 lessonsLanguage, Naming & Conceptual Devices
How language and naming function as devices that frame reality and create ownership over meaning.
1 lessonsReality Construction & Media Devices
How media devices construct our sense of reality.
3 lessonsIdeology, Power & Device Non-Neutrality
How devices function as instruments of power and social control.
3 lessonsComparative Genesis & Competitive Dynamics
The evolutionary and competitive dynamics that drive the emergence and spread of new devices.
3 lessons