About Us
Critical Notions is an orthofield research institute founded on the idea of a world held under new criteria. Attention, bodies, infrastructure, and time are materials to nourish personal discipline and social evolution at scale. By applying a scientific approach to philosophical principles, we work through three continuous operations: distilling lived pressure into regimens of practice and judgment; composing parallel forms of governance, economy, and relation as working prototypes; and reorganizing collective life around a post-ontotheology that functions as its primary architecture.
From this mixture we design protocols to nurture intellectual development; we commit to overcoming social liquification and artificial barriers to personal growth. From the outside it appears as a school of orthogonal thought; closer in, as a workshop for reconfiguring institutions and infrastructures; at its center, as an order conducting a long experiment in fitting life to a higher standard of coherence and demand.
FAQs
What, precisely, is being built here?
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We are building a resilient institute that treats development and infrastructures as primary political objects. It exists to design conditions under which human judgment can operate outside exhausted state–capital–algorithm paradigm, over long periods, with small numbers of people who take that obligation seriously.
Why Are the AestheticS so severe, slow, and Stark?
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Because speed and scale are already the default politics of the current substrate. Severity is how we prevent drift into content and vibes. Slowness and starkness are design choices that keep attention, memory, and accountability intact long enough to build anything that can bear weight.
Is this a community, a school, a Philosophy, or a political project?
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It borrows forms from all four and matches none of them cleanly. It has the intimacy of a small community, the rigor of a school, the ritual density of a philosophical tradition, and the infrastructural ambitions of a political project—but its loyalty is to the design of durable conditions, not to any single ideology or identity.
What does it mean to “enter the field” of the institute?
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It means agreeing to be observed and remembered over time; to be counted in the census, to let your patterns of attention and action be seen, and to let that seeing shape how you are invited into work. It is consent to a shared field of responsibility.