The Apophenic Goblin Discovers transmission

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of transmission in their cultural cosmology.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting transmission in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

digital and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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 conspiracy

To a goblin, conspiracy is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about conspiracy feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on transmission, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.