Death and the ‘Labryinth’

Ilexa Yardley
The Circular Theory
3 min readMay 1, 2021

Tokenization produces a cryptic unverse, where a ‘self’ is in a continual circular-linear relationship with at-most, and at-least, one other self.

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Tokenization produces a cryptic universe, where a ‘self’ is in a continual circular-linear relationship with at-most, and at-least, one other self. As elucidated, clearly, by Michel Foucault in Death and the Labrynth, and The Order of Things.

The Cryptic Universe

Meaning, technically, we are all, in our own, cryptic (read: tokenized), universe.

See:

Death and the Labyrinth — Michel Foucault Complete Review

Amazon.com: Death and the Labyrinth (Continuum Collection) (9780826493620): Foucault, Michel, Ruas, Charles: Books for his ideas about the relationship between ‘words’ and ‘things.’

Which was a precursor to The Order of Things which introduced the idea of the episteme— (Foucault’s) way of thinking about (tokenizing) truth and discourse.

“With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.

In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that “man” — man as a subject of scientific knowledge — is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.” Editorial review.

The Circular-Linear Universe

In The Circular Theory:

Word and Thing
Life and Death
(0 (1) 0)

Conservation of the Circle produces a universal episteme (epistemes) (episti-meme) (the diagram (and the statement) (labryinth) (cryptic universe) (universal meme).

Conservation of a Circle
Amazon.com: Biomemetics: The Tokenization of Reality eBook: Yardley, Ilexa: Kindle Store

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