Power used to have a face – someone to praise, blame, or behead. LBJ on the Senate floor, the CEO on the earnings call, the cop at your car door. Napoleon, Machiavelli, Henry Ford – power was personified. But A.I., in all its manifestations – faceless, headless, ambient – is changing this. It is becoming the liquefaction agent of power – liquifying, dissolving, and radically transforming the structure of power and governance and eroding the boundaries between state and corporation. A single liquid Corporate – State, merged into an ever more unaccountable flow. And its operating system, its organizing principle, isn’t law or ideology – it’s optimization.

Full essay at Clarosophy1.substack.com Release date: May 21st