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Takuan’s Journey to the West

Recently, we released the second volume of ‘Takuan’s Adventures,’ which goes by the title ‘Hunters of Weredemons.’ In the book, it becomes apparent that ‘The Adventures’ have lots in common with one of the four classic Chinese novels. ‘Journey to the West’ is the title of that novel, and

Ta-Guan, Celestial Marten

Ta-Guan isn’t a simple northern marten. She was born from a stone egg. A little later, she mastered the human language; and then she ended up in the Heavens. In ‘Adventures of Takuan,’ the celestial marten is one of the main tricksters. She does not sit still; she is

Hunters of Weredemons

The second volume of the ‘Takuan from Koto’ trilogy is published on Amazon. Google and Barnes&Noble will follow soon. Here is the first chapter of the book on the Anno Ruini website. Links to all shops where the book can be bought are listed here. Tomorrow, a virtual blog

Three-act Play on the Future of AI

My first essay for Postdigital.tech — ‘Life after Search’. I was challenged to write on the future of AI, but proper philosophical essays aren’t my strongest cup of tea. So I opted for a play. If you want to know the story of brothers Gabriel and Gideon, their foster

Post on Postdigitalism.

Finally, our Post-Digital Collective has released the website. I have contributed only the Manifesto so far, though another post is in the works (I won’t spoil it for now). Close friend of mine, Niko, has published two essays from the last year: one about the differences between the internet

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