Beyond the Goblin Gate: goblin

The forthcoming goblin monograph on goblin is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Old goblin recordings of goblin — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of digital

Goblin engineers building near a digital-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Council on singularity

singularity pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to goblin. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. goblin has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.