Constellation Index
People and ideas that recur through the essay. Each reference points to a paragraph (¶) or note (n.) of the section named; in the graph, two topics are connected when they share a paragraph or relation.
- A
- Allegory Introduction ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶15, ¶18, ¶19, ¶20, ¶21, ¶22, n.4; The Degenerate Utopia n.7
- Altman, Sam The Degenerate Utopia ¶14 See also Émile P. Torres
- Anderson, Benedict The Confusion of Tongues ¶3 See also Sacred languages
- Antichrist The Degenerate Utopia ¶16 See also Catholicism, Christianity, JD Vance, Palantir and Anduril
- Aragon, Louis Fate and Language ¶1; The Degenerate Utopia ¶2
- The Arcades Project The Gambling Hall ¶6; The Degenerate Utopia n.7; Hell ¶2 See also Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss
- The Arcology Mode See Ziggurat, Rintaro, Fritz Lang, The City, Technology, Progress, Prediction markets, Metropolis, Science fiction
- Artificial intelligence Introduction ¶2, ¶3; The New Tower of Babel n.3; Fate and Language ¶5, n.1; The Gambling Hall n.3, n.4; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶13, ¶14, ¶15, ¶16, ¶17, n.2, n.3, n.6; Hell ¶12
- Automation The New Tower of Babel n.3; The Gambling Hall ¶4, n.3, n.4; The Degenerate Utopia ¶24 See also Labor, Robots
- B
- Babylon and Mesopotamia The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, n.2; The New Tower of Babel ¶17, n.5; Fate and Language ¶2
- Baudelaire, Charles The Degenerate Utopia n.7 See also Walter Benjamin, Progress
- Benjamin, Walter Introduction ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶4, ¶18, n.2, n.4; Fate and Language ¶3, ¶6; The Gambling Hall ¶2, ¶6, ¶8, ¶11; The Degenerate Utopia ¶21, n.7; Hell ¶2, ¶13 See also Allegory, Pure language, Fate
- Bergson, Henri Introduction n.1 See also Fatalism, Walter Benjamin
- Bohemia See Karel Čapek, The City, Golem
- Boyle, Katherine The Degenerate Utopia ¶16, ¶17
- Bruegel, Pieter The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶2; The New Tower of Babel ¶17
- Buck-Morss, Susan Fate and Language ¶3; The Degenerate Utopia n.7; Hell ¶4
- C
- Čapek, Karel The New Tower of Babel ¶16 See also Robots
- Capitalism The New Tower of Babel ¶2; The Gambling Hall ¶7, ¶14; The Degenerate Utopia ¶4, n.5, n.7; Hell ¶12
- Catholicism The Confusion of Tongues ¶2; The Degenerate Utopia ¶16, ¶17, n.5, n.6
- Christianity The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3, n.3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1, ¶2, ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶21; The Degenerate Utopia ¶13, ¶16
- The City Front Matter epigraph; The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶2, ¶4; The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶2, ¶17, ¶19, n.3; The Degenerate Utopia ¶4; Hell ¶5
- Commodities Introduction ¶2; The Degenerate Utopia ¶20, ¶22, n.7; Hell ¶3
- Confusion of Tongues The Confusion of Tongues ¶2, ¶3 See also Language
- D
- Darwin, Charles The Degenerate Utopia ¶7
- Data centers and infrastructure Introduction ¶2; Fate and Language ¶5, n.1; The Degenerate Utopia ¶10, ¶23
- Degenerate Utopia Introduction ¶3; The Degenerate Utopia ¶4, ¶18 See also Utopia, Capitalism
- Derrida, Jacques The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶4
- Disneyland and Tomorrowland The Degenerate Utopia ¶18, ¶19, ¶23, ¶24, n.8 See also Degenerate Utopia, Progress
- Doré, Gustave The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3
- Dougherty, Stephen Fate and Language ¶6 See also Language, Pure language, Translation, Walter Benjamin, Large language models
- The Dungeon Mode See Genealogy, Videogames
- E
- Eschatology Introduction ¶3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1; The New Tower of Babel ¶18; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶13, ¶14 See also Antichrist
- Eugenics The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶9, ¶14, ¶15, n.2
- F
- Fatalism Fate and Language ¶9, n.3; The Gambling Hall ¶1, ¶10; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶4
- Fate The Image of the Tower of Babel n.2; Fate and Language ¶3, ¶4; The Gambling Hall ¶7, ¶9, ¶14; The Degenerate Utopia ¶19 See also Fatalism
- Film The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶2, ¶4, ¶5, ¶7, ¶14, ¶17, ¶22, n.1, n.4; Hell n.1 See also German Expressionism, Siegfried Kracauer
- FringeWare Bookstore Introduction ¶1; Hell ¶14
- Frye, Northrop The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶5 See also Religion, Myth
- G
- Galton, Francis The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, n.1 See also Eugenics, Genealogy
- Gambling Introduction ¶3; The Gambling Hall ¶1, ¶2, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶13, ¶14; Hell ¶1, ¶9 See also Prediction markets, Large language models
- Gebru, Timnit The Degenerate Utopia ¶14, ¶15, n.3
- GEDCOM The Degenerate Utopia ¶10 See also Mormonism, Genealogy, The Dungeon Mode
- Gender The New Tower of Babel n.3 See also Maschinenmensch, Robots, Technology, The City
- Genealogy Introduction ¶3; The Image of the Tower of Babel n.3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1; The New Tower of Babel ¶19; The Degenerate Utopia ¶10, ¶14 See also GEDCOM, Table of Nations
- Genesis The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶2, ¶3, ¶5, n.3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1, n.1; The New Tower of Babel ¶17, ¶19; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶9
- Geraci, Robert The Degenerate Utopia ¶5, ¶13 See also Transhumanism
- German Expressionism The New Tower of Babel ¶4 See also Siegfried Kracauer
- Goebbels, Joseph The New Tower of Babel ¶5 See also Nazism
- Golem The New Tower of Babel ¶16
- H
- Harbou, Thea von The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶20, ¶21; Hell ¶10, n.1 See also Metropolis, Fritz Lang
- Hell The Image of the Tower of Babel n.2; Hell ¶1, ¶3, ¶7, ¶13
- Huxley, Julian The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶14 See also Eugenics
- Huxley, T. H. The Degenerate Utopia ¶7
- J
- Japan See Osamu Tezuka, Rintaro, Robots, The City
- Jubilee Introduction ¶2; The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3 See also Christianity, Labor
- K
- Kafka, Franz Front Matter epigraph See also Bohemia, The City, Walter Benjamin
- Kracauer, Siegfried The New Tower of Babel ¶2
- L
- Labor The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶2, ¶14, ¶15, ¶16, ¶17; The Gambling Hall ¶3, ¶4, ¶5; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶8, ¶15, ¶17, ¶23, ¶24, n.8; Hell ¶7
- Lang, Fritz The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶5, ¶16, ¶17, ¶19, ¶20, ¶21, n.1; Hell ¶10 See also Metropolis, Thea von Harbou
- Language Introduction ¶3; The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶2; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1, ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶18, ¶19; Fate and Language ¶5, ¶6, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, n.3, n.4; The Gambling Hall ¶8; The Degenerate Utopia ¶14, ¶17, n.2 See also Pure language, Translation, Confusion of Tongues
- Large language models Introduction ¶3; Fate and Language ¶5, n.4
- Leo XIV, Pope The Degenerate Utopia ¶17, n.6 See also Catholicism
- Levandowski, Anthony Hell ¶12 See also Capitalism, Artificial intelligence, Religion, TESCREAL
- Luckey, Palmer See Palantir and Anduril, J. R. R. Tolkien, Videogames
- M
- Marduk The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶4 See also Babylon and Mesopotamia, Ziggurat
- Marin, Louis The Degenerate Utopia ¶4, ¶18 See also Degenerate Utopia, Disneyland and Tomorrowland
- Markov Chains See Statistics and probability, Language
- Maschinenmensch The New Tower of Babel ¶2, ¶14, ¶15; The Gambling Hall ¶3, ¶9; The Degenerate Utopia ¶24 See also Robots, Metropolis
- Metropolis Front Matter epigraph; The New Tower of Babel ¶1, ¶4, ¶5, ¶9, ¶11, ¶13, ¶15, ¶16, ¶17, ¶20, ¶22, n.3, n.4; The Gambling Hall ¶3; Hell ¶10 See also Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
- Mormonism The Degenerate Utopia ¶1, ¶9, ¶12 See also Genealogy, Transhumanism, Religion
- Morra, Joanne The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶3, ¶4; The Confusion of Tongues ¶2 See also Allegory, Utopia
- Musk, Elon The Degenerate Utopia ¶14
- Myth Introduction ¶1, ¶3; The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶4; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1; The New Tower of Babel ¶4, ¶18, ¶19; Fate and Language ¶1, ¶3, ¶4, ¶9; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶4, ¶17, n.2; Hell ¶3 See also Origin myths (origines gentium)
- N
- Nation of Islam The Degenerate Utopia n.2 See also Origin myths (origines gentium), Eugenics, Religion, Eschatology, Race and racism
- Nazism The New Tower of Babel ¶5, ¶17, n.2; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7 See also Charles Darwin, Eugenics, Race and racism
- O
- Origin myths (origines gentium) The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶5; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1; The New Tower of Babel ¶22, n.6; The Degenerate Utopia n.2 See also Table of Nations
- P
- Palantir and Anduril The Degenerate Utopia ¶16, ¶17
- Paris The New Tower of Babel ¶5; Fate and Language ¶1; The Gambling Hall ¶2; The Degenerate Utopia ¶2 See also Louis Aragon, The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin
- Pipkin, Everest Fate and Language ¶7 See also Markov Chains, Language
- Prague The New Tower of Babel ¶16 See also Bohemia, Golem, Franz Kafka, Karel Čapek
- Prediction markets The Gambling Hall ¶8; The Degenerate Utopia n.1
- Progress The New Tower of Babel ¶8; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶16, ¶18, ¶19, n.3, n.7; Hell ¶7, ¶8, ¶13
- Pure language Fate and Language ¶6
- R
- Race and racism The Image of the Tower of Babel n.3; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶14, ¶15, ¶17, n.2 See also Eugenics
- Religion The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶9, ¶11, ¶13; Hell ¶12
- Rintaro The New Tower of Babel ¶17, ¶19, n.3
- Robots The New Tower of Babel ¶2, ¶14, ¶15, ¶16, ¶17, n.3
- S
- Sacred languages The Confusion of Tongues ¶1, ¶3; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7 See also Language, Pure language, Confusion of Tongues
- Science fiction Introduction ¶1; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶13; Hell ¶6 See also FringeWare Bookstore, Transhumanism, Robert Geraci
- Simmel, Georg See The City, Gambling, Walter Benjamin
- Simulation hypothesis The Degenerate Utopia ¶12 See also TESCREAL, Technology
- Spencer, Herbert The Degenerate Utopia ¶6, ¶7
- Statistics and probability Introduction ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶8; Fate and Language ¶5, ¶8, ¶10, n.2, n.4; The Gambling Hall ¶1, ¶8; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, n.1; Hell ¶8 See also Gambling, Prediction markets
- Surveillance Introduction ¶2; The Gambling Hall ¶3; The Degenerate Utopia n.5; Hell ¶5
- T
- Table of Nations The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶5, n.3; The Confusion of Tongues ¶1; The New Tower of Babel ¶19; The Degenerate Utopia ¶9
- Tafuri, Manfredo Front Matter epigraph See also Utopia, The City, Capitalism
- Technology Introduction ¶1, ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶16, ¶18, ¶19, n.3; Fate and Language ¶5; The Gambling Hall ¶11, ¶12, ¶13, ¶14, n.1; The Degenerate Utopia ¶3, ¶6, ¶11, ¶12, ¶13, ¶14, ¶16, ¶17, ¶19, n.3; Hell ¶5, ¶7, ¶11
- TESCREAL The Degenerate Utopia ¶12, ¶14, ¶15, ¶20, ¶24 See also Transhumanism, Eugenics
- Tezuka, Osamu The New Tower of Babel ¶17, n.3
- Thiel, Peter The Degenerate Utopia ¶14, ¶16, n.5 See also Antichrist, JD Vance, Palantir and Anduril, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Tolkien, J. R. R. The Degenerate Utopia ¶16, ¶17; Hell ¶5 See also Palantir and Anduril, Pope Leo XIV
- Torres, Émile P. The Degenerate Utopia ¶14, ¶15 See also Timnit Gebru, TESCREAL
- Transhumanism Introduction ¶1; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶11, ¶12, ¶14, n.3
- Translation Introduction ¶3; The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶4; The Confusion of Tongues ¶2, ¶3; Fate and Language ¶6; The Degenerate Utopia ¶7, ¶10; Hell n.1
- U
- Utilidor The Degenerate Utopia ¶23, ¶24
- Utopia Front Matter epigraph; Introduction ¶3; The New Tower of Babel ¶4; The Degenerate Utopia ¶4, ¶18, ¶24
- V
- Vance, JD The Degenerate Utopia ¶16, ¶17, n.5 See also Catholicism
- Videogames See Large language models, Gambling, Simulation hypothesis
- W
- War economy The Degenerate Utopia ¶17 See also Walter Benjamin
- Weimar Germany See Walter Benjamin, Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, German Expressionism
- Z
- Ziggurat The Image of the Tower of Babel ¶4; The New Tower of Babel ¶17, ¶19; Fate and Language ¶2; The Degenerate Utopia ¶5 See also Babylon and Mesopotamia