Latest update Jul 9, 2026

Independent research project — Kalamazoo, MI

THE MEANS
OF PRODUCTION

The fish have theories about the water.
The theories are also in the water.

We are investigating the machinery that produces the real.

— locate the machinery —

Classically, the means of production are the factories, the land, the capital.

But what are the means that produce reality itself?

Not metaphysical reality. Lived social reality. The kind you wake up inside.

What produces:

moneyreputation identitygender workmerit scarcitynormality successfamily intelligencevalue

Not factories. Layers of stories, institutions, technologies, incentives, measurements, rituals, interfaces, laws, habits, architectures, symbols, and feedback loops.

We are in the soup. We have theories about the soup. The theories are also in the soup. This is the problem and the method.

01 — PUBLISHING
The Press
An independent literary press publishing fiction that takes the machinery seriously. Four titles out. One forthcoming.
VISIT THE PRESS →
02 — CATALOG
The Myth Index
A running inventory of operative myths — the stories that function as infrastructure. Not lies, exactly. Productive fictions.
VIEW THE INDEX →
03 — LABORATORY
LayerBound Labs
Experimental tools and interactive visualizations for mapping the systems that produce the world.
ENTER THE LAB →
04 — COLLEGE
The College of Meaning Production
An institution that grants no degree it did not first invent, and holds no authority it cannot generate from its own completed work. The English Department and the Science Department are its first two departments.
ENTER THE COLLEGE →
05 — TRANSMISSION
The Red Screen
Dispatches on the current moment. Where theory meets the news cycle. Irregular, when necessary.
TUNE IN →
Prospectus

Documents toward
a future.

Working documents for the machinery we have not built yet. Constitutional logic for the world we might still produce.

No. 01
The Future Constitution

Systems are means. Not masters. A founding document — and the test it must pass to deserve to exist.

READ THE DOCUMENT →