Memetics
Editorial, research, and tooling dedicated to human flourishing in the post-AGI era.
Research
Paper
Which Art Endures? Funding Networks, Institutional Power, and the Political Economy of American Arts Philanthropy
Arts philanthropy as a legitimation economy. 384,543 grants, $15B in funding, 2019–2024. Preferential attachment, edge persistence, and modularity as structural parameters of cultural allocation.
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Preliminary Findings
Do Rationalists Dream of Electric Art? Relocated Scarcity and Discourse Legitimation
A sociohistorical paper about cheapening intelligence, selective art legibility, and rival regimes of judgment across alignment-adjacent and arts-critical discourse.