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Levelling Up
Feb 1 • Matt Wilven

January 2026

The New Priesthood
Exegesis and the Silicon Soul
Jan 25 • Matt Wilven
The Silicon Metabolism
Why artificial intelligence scales like a civilisation, not software
Jan 18 • Matt Wilven
The Funesian Trap
The Politics of Total Recall in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Jan 17 • Matt Wilven
The Mechanical Oracle
The Rise of the Algorithmic Clerisy and the New Technofeudalism
Jan 12 • Matt Wilven
AI's Cultural Battlefield
Art, consent, and power in the age of probability
Jan 11 • Matt Wilven
The Silicon Metabolism
A Report on the Surrender of the Earth
Jan 5 • Matt Wilven
The Case for a Public Mind
Why Britain needs a chartered artificial intelligence
Jan 4 • Matt Wilven

December 2025

The Ghost in the Archive
Art, Value, and the Algorithmic Turn
Dec 29, 2025 • Matt Wilven
In Defence of Telling
Tell, don't show?
Dec 28, 2025 • Matt Wilven
The Digital Enclosure
A Constitutional Sleepwalk
Dec 23, 2025 • Matt Wilven
SHOW HOME - Chapter 11
The Slip
Dec 21, 2025 • Matt Wilven
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