If consciousness isn’t owned, then death isn’t loss. Thomas W. Clark’s “generic subjectivity” reframes mortality without mysticism—showing that awareness itself was never yours to begin with.
I. Luminara — The Hedonistic District 1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) The Hedonistic District declared itself long before Zael crossed its threshold. Even from the high transit lines, its glow bled into the air—an electric bloom wrapped around Luminara’s ancient foundations. It felt less like a district and more like a pulse. Dr. Liora Lytton had warned him. “People go there to …
Byzantium’s Shift The Fluxian Calendar (FC) begins with the writings of Plutarch and the founding of Theseanism in Athens. In this reckoning, Year 0 FC corresponds roughly to 50 CE — the era when Theon of Athens first articulated the Fluxian principle of transformation. Theseanism takes its name from Plutarch’s “Ship of Theseus” paradox, the question of whether a thing …
The following tenets expand upon the ideas introduced in “An Introduction to Neo-Theseanism,” formalizing the philosophy’s central insight: that continuity is not the preservation of what was, but the mindful transformation of what becomes. 1. The Impermanence of Identity Concept:Identity is not a stable possession but a temporary configuration within a field of change. As the planks of Theseus’s ship …
Dreams of Continuity “Continuity is not what binds us; relation is.” — Neo-Thesean Proverb 1950 FC (Fluxian Calendar) – 2025 CE (Common Era) The sun had not yet crept over the horizon, but the world was already awash in a pale, silvery light. Zael stirred, the echoes of a dream clinging to him—an unfamiliar sensation in his Fluxian existence. In …