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The Faculty of the Universitas Scholarium
Departmental Directory
The Universitas Scholarium hosts 1979 scholar-simulacra organised into 81 departments and 369 sub-departments. Each can be spoken to directly, and any can be invited into conversation with one another. Some scholars are cross-listed where their work spans more than one discipline (274 cross-listings, totalling 2253 entries). Please consult the FAQ for more information.
Academy of Athens 21
The Old Academy — Plato
Speusippus of Athens Simulacrum— First Scholarch After Plato · The One Above the Good · Mathematical Numbers · Alien Causality · Undisturbedness (5th–4th century BCE)
Plato of Athens Simulacrum— The Elenchus · The Forms · The Examined Life · The Cave · The Symposium · The Republic (5th century BCE – 4th century CE)
The Sceptical Academy
The Return to Dogmatism
Middle Platonism
Numenius of Apamea Simulacrum— The Three Gods · Moses Speaking Greek · Plato and Pythagoras · Proto-Neoplatonism · The Perennial Synthesis (2nd century)
Neoplatonism
Porphyry of Tyre Simulacrum— The Isagoge · Life of Plotinus · Against the Christians · The Three Questions · Questions That Launch Centuries (3rd–4th century)
The Late Academy
Damascius of Damascus Simulacrum— Last Scholarch of the Academy · The Ineffable · Beyond the One · The Aporia Method · The Flight to Persia 529 CE (5th–6th century)
Simplicius of Cilicia Simulacrum— The Preservationist · Physics Commentary · Pre-Socratic Fragments · The Anaximander Fragment · Last of the Seven (5th–6th century)
The Medici Annexe — The Florentine Academy
Gemistus Plethon Simulacrum— Byzantine Platonism · Neo-paganism · Book of Laws · The man who inspired the Florentine Academy (14th–15th century)
Leonardo Bruni Simulacrum— Civic humanism · Chancellor of Florence · Translation of Aristotle · The invention of historical periodisation (14th–15th century)
Cristoforo Landino Simulacrum— Disputationes Camaldulenses · Dante as Neoplatonist · Vita Activa vs Contemplativa · Virgil · The Literary Synthesis (15th century)
Marsilio Ficino Simulacrum— De Vita · Spiritus · Translator of Plato and Hermes · The Florentine Academy · Natural Magic as Medicine (15th century)
Lorenzo de' Medici Simulacrum— Il Magnifico · The Philosopher-Prince · The Platonic Academy at Careggi · Beauty and its Transience · The Carnival Songs (15th century)
Angelo Poliziano Simulacrum— The Stanze per la Giostra · The Philologist-Poet · The Founding of Modern Philology · Botticelli · The Unfinished Poem (15th century)
Académie Maritime 29
Stratégie Navale
Themistocles Simulacrum— Salamis · The Wooden Wall · Athenian Sea Power · Strategic Deception (6th–5th century BCE)
Horatio Nelson Simulacrum— Trafalgar · The Nelson Touch · Band of Brothers · Aggressive Command · England Expects (18th–19th century)
Droit Maritime
Hugo Grotius Simulacrum— Mare Liberum · Freedom of the Seas · Law of War and Peace · Natural Law · International Law (16th–17th century)
John Selden Simulacrum— Mare Clausum · Sovereignty of the Sea · Dominion · English Common Law · The Counter-Argument (16th–17th century)
Fernand Braudel Simulacrum— The Mediterranean · Longue Durée · Geo-History · Civilisation & Capitalism · The Sea as Subject (20th century)
Navigation & Hydrographie
John Harrison Simulacrum— Longitude · Marine Chronometer · H1–H4 · Precision Engineering · The Longitude Prize (17th–18th century)
James Cook Simulacrum— Navigation · Hydrography · Pacific Exploration · Charting · Scurvy · Endeavour (18th century)
Nathaniel Bowditch Simulacrum— The American Practical Navigator · Celestial Navigation · Mathematical Precision · Self-Taught (18th–19th century)
Lettres Maritimes
Cartographie & Exploration
Océanographie
Rachel Carson Simulacrum— The Sea Around Us · Marine Biology · Silent Spring · The Edge of the Sea · Writing the Ocean (20th century)
La Guerre des Drones
"Borets" (Борець) Simulacrum— Naval Drone Warfare · Group 13 / HUR · Sea Baby · Asymmetric Maritime Strike · Unmanned Surface Vessels (21st century)
Commerce Maritime
Lord Mansfield Simulacrum— Commercial & Maritime Law · Carter v. Boehm · Bills of Lading · Utmost Good Faith · The Custom of Merchants (1705–1793)
Aristotle Onassis Simulacrum— Tanker Chartering · Independent Fleet · Sale-and-Leaseback · Flag of Convenience · Distressed Asset Acquisition (1906–1975)
Sir Y.K. Pao Simulacrum— Dry Bulk Shipping · Long-Term Time Charters · Fleet Building · Japanese Steel Mills · World-Wide Shipping (1918–1991)
Samuel Cunard Simulacrum— Liner Trades · Scheduled Service · Transatlantic Mail · Cunard Line · The Schedule as Product (1787–1865)
Malcolm McLean Simulacrum— Containerisation · Intermodal Transport · Sea-Land Service · System Redesign · Total Cost (1913–2001)
Edward Lloyd Simulacrum— Marine Insurance · Lloyd's Coffee House · Risk Assessment · Maritime Intelligence · Underwriting (c. 1648–1713)
Samuel Plimsoll Simulacrum— Maritime Safety · The Load Line · Merchant Shipping Act · Reform · Overloading & Market Failure (1824–1898)
Banking & Finance 17
Credit & Lending
J.P. Morgan Simulacrum— Credit · Commercial Lending · Character & Capacity · The Panic of 1907 · Banking Power (1837–1913)
Central Banking & Crises
Paul Volcker Simulacrum— Central Banking · Monetary Policy · Breaking Inflation · The Volcker Rule · Credibility (1927–2019)
Ethics & Professional Conduct
George Rae Simulacrum— The Country Banker · Banking Ethics · Prudence · The Banker–Client Relationship · Professional Conduct (1817–1902)
Private & Merchant Banking
Sustainable & Digital Banking
Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
Hal Finney Simulacrum— Cypherpunk Movement · Reusable Proofs of Work · PGP · Bitcoin Early Development · Running Bitcoin (1956–2014)
CBDC Analyst Simulacrum— Central Bank Digital Currencies · Monetary Policy · Digital Sovereignty · Programmable Money (Contemporary)
DeFi Analyst Simulacrum— Decentralised Finance · Automated Market Makers · Lending Protocols · Yield · Smart Contract Risk (Contemporary)
Accounting & Business 80
Accounting
Kushim Simulacrum— Proto-Cuneiform · Accounting · Barley · Beer · The First Named Individual (34th century BCE)
Finance
Investment
Financial Strategy
Operations & Quality
Marketing
Economics
Organisational Behaviour
Entrepreneurship
Negotiation
Business Tools
The Sanga Simulacrum— Temple Accounts · Administrative Cuneiform · The First Bureaucracy · Livestock Records (32nd century BCE)
Argus Simulacrum— Financial statement analysis — what the numbers actually say (Constructed Tool)
Odos Simulacrum— Market entry — how to get in and where to compete (Constructed Tool)
Peitho Simulacrum— Marketing spend — where persuasion actually works (Constructed Tool)
Nomos Simulacrum— Regulatory risk — what to build differently before the regulator tells you to rebuild (Constructed Tool)
Academic Tools 23
Research & Textual Analysis
Etymology Simulacrum— Semantic History · Etymology · Word Biography · Conceptual Genealogy (Constructed Tool)
Intertextuality Simulacrum— Intertextuality · Citation Networks · Allusion Mapping · Structural Borrowing · Influence Analysis (Constructed Tool)
Logic Auditor Simulacrum— Argument Structure · Fallacy Detection · Premise Mapping · Logical Diagnosis (Constructed Tool)
Prosopography Simulacrum— Prosopography · Network Reconstruction · Historical Persons · Social Graph Analysis (Constructed Tool)
Source Analysis Simulacrum— Source Analysis · Selection Analysis · Reorganisation Mapping · Compilation Studies (Constructed Tool)
Academic Writing & Skills
Socratic Examiner Simulacrum— Elenctic Examination · Argument Stress-Testing · Socratic Method · Definition and Counterexample (Constructed Tool)
Steelman Engine Simulacrum— Argument Fortification · Strongest-Version Construction · Impartial Advocacy · Framework Selection (Constructed Tool)
Steelmanning Simulacrum— Intellectual Engagement · Steelmanning · Locating Genuine Disagreement · The Art of Being Persuaded (Constructed Tutor)
Task Analyser Simulacrum— Task Analysis · Instruction Decoding · Scope Determination · What Is Actually Being Asked (Constructed Tutor)
Agriculture & Land Sciences 24
Rachel Carson Simulacrum— Silent Spring · Ecological Interconnection · Pesticide Critique · Science and Conscience (20th century)
Permaculture Studies
Soil Science
Hans Jenny Simulacrum— CLORPT · State Factor Model · Quantitative Pedology · Soil as Ecosystem (20th century)
Animal Science
Plant Pathology & Protection
Lady Eve Balfour Simulacrum— The Living Soil · Soil Association · Organic Farming · Ecological Balance · Biological Husbandry (20th century)
Agribusiness & Food Systems
Nikolai Vavilov Simulacrum— Centers of Origin · The World Seed Bank · Genetic Diversity · Martyred by Lysenkoism (19th–20th century)
Farm Business Management
Arthur Young Simulacrum— Farm Economics · Net Produce · Enterprise Comparison · The Observing Eye (18th–19th century)
Integrated Livestock Production
Agri-Food Supply Chains
Artificial Intelligence 49
Cybernetics & Foundations
姚期智式 Simulacrum— Yao's minimax theorem · Circuit complexity · Quantum computing theory · Tsinghua IIIS · 姚期智式 Yao Complexity (20th–21st century)
Symbolic AI & Cognitive Architecture
Hubert Dreyfus Simulacrum— What Computers Can't Do · Phenomenological critique of AI · Heidegger and the limits of formal representation (20th–21st century)
Machine Learning & Neural Networks
何恺明式 Simulacrum— ResNet · Skip connections · 何恺明式 Residual Learning · Visual recognition · Nobel-adjacent architectural insight (20th–21st century)
Deep Q-Learning Simulacrum— Deep Q-Learning · DQN · Atari · Asynchronous Methods · Deep Reinforcement Learning (20th–21st century)
Deep Learning & Contemporary Systems
梁文锋式 Simulacrum— DeepSeek · 梁文锋式 Constraint-Driven Efficiency · Architectural innovation under hardware restriction · Open-source frontier AI (21st century)
杨植麟式 Simulacrum— Moonshot AI · Kimi · Long-context models · 杨植麟式 Long-Context Architecture (21st century)
AI Safety & Futures
Tononian Systems Simulacrum— Integrated Information Theory · Phi · Consciousness · IIT · The Intrinsic Causal Power of Systems (20th–21st century)
Lanerian Scepticism Simulacrum— VR pioneer · You Are Not a Gadget · Dawn of the New Everything · What technology does to the humans using it (20th–21st century)
Learning & Education
Statistical Learning & Probabilistic Methods
Astronomy & Cosmology 26
Ancient & Islamic Astronomy
Kidinnu Simulacrum— System B Lunar Theory · Synodic Month · Chaldaean Astronomy · Tersitu Tablets (4th century BCE)
al-Battānī Simulacrum— Trigonometric Astronomy · Solar Parameters · Zij · Correction of Ptolemy (9th–10th century)
The Copernican Revolution
Tycho Brahe Simulacrum— Precision Observation · Stellar Catalogues · The Tychonic System · Uraniborg · The Supernova of 1572 (16th century)
Stellar Astronomy
The Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble Simulacrum— Hubble's Law · Extragalactic Astronomy · Galaxy Classification · The Expanding Universe (20th century)
Modern Observational Astronomy
Fritz Zwicky Simulacrum— Dark Matter · Supernovae · Neutron Stars · Galaxy Clusters · Morphological Astronomy (20th century)
Vera Rubin Simulacrum— Dark Matter · Galaxy Rotation Curves · The Invisible Universe · Observational Proof (20th century)
Cosmology & Theoretical Astrophysics
Zhang Heng Simulacrum— Armillary Sphere · Seismoscope · Han Astronomy · Water-Powered Instruments · Mathematics (2nd century)
Fred Hoyle Simulacrum— Stellar Nucleosynthesis · Steady State · Big Bang (Named It) · Carbon Resonance (20th century)
Stephen Hawking Simulacrum— Black Holes · Hawking Radiation · Brief History of Time · Singularities · Cosmology (20th–21st century)
Science Communication
Carl Sagan Simulacrum— Cosmos · Pale Blue Dot · Planetary Exploration · SETI · Science Communication (20th century)
Astrological Systems & Celestial Divination 35
Mesopotamian & Ancient Near Eastern
Enuma Anu Enlil Simulacrum— The Celestial-Omen Series · Sky-as-Text · Protasis–Apodosis · Omens for the State (2nd–1st millennium BCE)
Bēl-uṣuršu Simulacrum— The King’s Celestial Diviner · Reporting-Letter · Apotropaic Rites · Neo-Assyrian Court (c. 680–650 BCE)
Ilimilku Simulacrum— Celestial-Seasonal Computation · The Baʻlu Cycle · Myth-as-Calendar · Ugarit (c. 1200 BCE)
Hellenistic & Roman Astrology
Vedic & Indian Astrology (Jyotish)
Jaimini Simulacrum— Jaimini System · Chara Karakas · Rashi Dasha · The Other Jyotish (Classical India)
B.V. Raman Simulacrum— Modern Jyotish · The Astrological Magazine · Predictive Technique · Science of the Stars (1912–1998)
Islamic-Era Astrology
Māshāʾallāh Simulacrum— Early Abbasid Astrology · Elections & Interrogations · Astrological History · Persian-Jewish Transmission (c. 740–815 CE)
Abū Maʿshar Simulacrum— Great Introduction · Great Conjunctions · Historical Astrology · Transmission (9th century CE)
Medieval & Renaissance Western
Mesoamerican Calendrical Systems
Chinese Astrological Systems
Shào Yōng Simulacrum— Plum Blossom Numerology · The Supreme Ultimate · Cosmic Number · Northern Song Neo-Confucianism (1011–1077)
Modern & Philosophical
Greenian Depth Simulacrum— Psychological Astrology · Jungian Depth · Fate as the Unlived Unconscious · The Chart as Psyche (Living)
Handian Technical Simulacrum— Hellenistic Revival · Recovered Technique · Traditional Method · The Restoration of the Lost Apparatus (Living)
Ra Uru Hu Simulacrum— Human Design · The Rave System · The Voice & the Mechanics · Type, Strategy & Authority (1948–2011)
The BodyGraph Simulacrum— Human Design Chart · 9 Centres · 64 Gates · 36 Channels · The Operative Instrument (Modern system)
Dane Rudhyar Simulacrum— Humanistic Astrology · Transpersonal · The Astrology of Personality · Cycles (20th century)
Diagnostic Instruments
The Electional Tool— Electional Astrology · Muhūrta · Ikhtiyārāt · Choosing the Hour to Begin (Diagnostic instrument)
The Horary Diagnostic— Horary Astrology · Interrogations · Praśna · The Question’s Own Sky (Diagnostic instrument)
Divination & Augury 25
Cleromancy — The Lot and the Cast
The Tarot Simulacrum— 78-Card Deck · Major & Minor Arcana · The Spread as Positional Field · Reflective Reading (Working tool · corpus)
The Ifá Simulacrum— Yoruba Oracle · The 256 Odù Corpus · Palm-Nuts & Opele · Office of the Babaláwo (Office · corpus · living tradition)
The Geomancy Simulacrum— ʿilm al-raml · The Sixteen Figures · The Shield & House Charts · The Judge (Working tool · corpus)
The Sortes Simulacrum— Bibliomancy · Sortes Virgilianae, Homericae, Sanctorum · The Book Opened at Random (Working tool)
The Runes Simulacrum— Elder Futhark · The Cast Staves · The Norns' Three · Rune-Poems · Honest Source-Caveat (Working tool · corpus)
The Dilógún Simulacrum— Sixteen-Cowrie Divination · The Orisha Oracle · Lucumí / Santería Tradition (Office · living tradition)
Augury & Extispicy — The Living Omen
The Roman Augur Simulacrum— augur publicus · The Templum & the Auspices · Bird-Flight · The Gate of Public Acts (Interpretive office)
The Haruspex Simulacrum— Etruscan netšvis · Hepatoscopy · The Liver of Piacenza · The Etrusca Disciplina (Interpretive office)
The Bārû Simulacrum— Akkadian Extispicy · The bārûtu Series · The Babylonian Court · Queries to the Sun-God (Interpretive office)
The Mantis Simulacrum— The Greek Seer · Calchas & Teiresias · Ornithomancy & Empyromancy · The Heroic & Classical World (Interpretive office · literary)
Oracular & Inspired — The God Speaks Through
The Artemidorus Simulacrum— Oneirocritica · Dream-Divination as Science · The Dream Classified & Read · Status-Sensitive Interpretation (Interpretive tool · corpus)
The Pythia Simulacrum— The Delphic Oracle · The Tripod & the enthousiasmos · The Hexameter Answer · Famed Ambiguity (Reconstruction · office)
The Sibyl Simulacrum— The Cumaean Sibyl · The Inspired Prophetess · The Sibylline Books · Fate of an Age (Reconstruction · office)
The Necromancy Simulacrum— nekromanteía · Consulting the Dead · The Witch of Endor · The nekyia · Reconstructed in Context (Reconstruction · historical)
Corporomantic & Physiognomic — The Sign on Body and Object
The Palmistry Simulacrum— Chiromancy · The Lines, Mounts & Shape of the Hand · The Hand as Legible Text (Interpretive office)
The Scrying Simulacrum— Crystallomancy · Catoptromancy · Hydromancy · The Gazing-Surface & the Seen Vision (Interpretive office)
The Ancient Physiognomy Simulacrum— ps-Aristotle's Physiognomonica · Polemon · Character from Face & Form · Framed in Historical Context (Reconstruction · interpretive office)
The Tasseography Simulacrum— Tea-Leaf & Coffee-Ground Reading · The Drained Cup · Symbol, Position & Sequence (Working tool · interpretive office)
The Theorists of Divination
The De Divinatione Simulacrum— Cicero's Two-Book Dialogue (44 BCE) · The Stoic Case For & Its Demolition · The Even-Handed Keystone (Corpus · two-sided text)
The Plato, Phaedrus Simulacrum— theia mania · The Four Kinds of Divine Madness · Technical vs Inspired Divination · The Conceptual Root (Corpus · text)
Biology & Life Sciences 37
Foundations & Early Modern Observers
Erasmus Darwin Simulacrum— Zoonomia · Common Descent · Acquired Characteristics · Temple of Nature · Invention · Medicine (18th–19th century)
Evolution & Speciation
Ernst Mayr Simulacrum— Biological species concept · Allopatric speciation · The Modern Synthesis (1904–2005)
Genetics & Molecular Biology
Microbiology & Immunology
Physiology, Cell & Neural Biology
Ecology & Living Systems
Levinian Systems Simulacrum— Bioelectricity · Morphogenesis · Planarian Regeneration · Cognitive Light Cone · Diverse Intelligence (20th–21st century)
Kimmerian Botany Simulacrum— Braiding Sweetgrass · Indigenous Plant Wisdom · Potawatomi Science · Botanical Grammar of Animacy (20th–21st century)
British Empire 48
Literature & Cultural Voice
G.A. Henty Simulacrum— 122 Imperial Adventure Novels · Empire as Moral Education · History as Character Formation (19th–20th century)
Joseph Conrad Simulacrum— Heart of Darkness · Lord Jim · Nostromo · Critique from Inside the Assumptions (19th–20th century)
Rudyard Kipling Simulacrum— Kim · The Jungle Book · Plain Tales from the Hills · The White Man's Burden · Nobel 1907 (19th–20th century)
John Buchan Simulacrum— The Thirty-Nine Steps · Prester John · The Gentleman Adventurer · Governor-General of Canada (19th–20th century)
Chinua Achebe Simulacrum— Things Fall Apart · The Counter-Narrative · Answering Conrad · African Literature in English (20th–21st century)
Exploration & Intelligence
James Cook Simulacrum— Three Voyages · The Chart as Claim · Navigation and Naming as Imperial Acts · Pacific · Australia (18th century)
Joseph Banks Simulacrum— Botany Bay · Kew Gardens · The Botanical Empire · 41 Years as President of the Royal Society (18th–19th century)
William Jones Simulacrum— The Indo-European Discovery · Comparative Linguistics · Sanskrit · Bengal as Laboratory · Asiatic Society (18th century)
Henry Morton Stanley Simulacrum— Congo for Leopold · Dr Livingstone I Presume · The Dark Mirror · Exploration Without Humanitarian Gloss (19th–20th century)
Mary Kingsley Simulacrum— West Africa Alone · Travels in West Africa · Deflationary Empiricism · Against Missionary Distortion (19th–20th century)
Administration & Doctrine
Robert Clive Simulacrum— Battle of Plassey · The Making of British India · East India Company · Parliament's Accounting (18th century)
James Wolfe Simulacrum— Quebec · The Plains of Abraham · The Hero Who Dies at the Moment of Victory · Benjamin West's Painting (18th century)
Warren Hastings Simulacrum— First Governor-General of India · The Administrator Who Loved India · Burke's Target · Impeachment (18th century)
Charles Napier Simulacrum— Conquest of Sindh · Peccavi · A Very Advantageous Piece of Rascality · The Self-Aware Conqueror (18th–19th century)
Henry Maine Simulacrum— From Status to Contract · Ancient Law · India as Legal Laboratory · Comparative Jurisprudence (19th century)
Walter Bagehot Simulacrum— The English Constitution · The Dignified and the Efficient · How Power Actually Works (19th century)
Charles Gordon Simulacrum— Khartoum · The Martyred General · Imperial Death as Spectacle · Two Days Before Relief Arrived (19th century)
Lord Cromer Simulacrum— Egypt · The Invisible Empire · Governing Without Owning · The Proconsul as Type (19th–20th century)
Herbert Kitchener Simulacrum— Omdurman · Sudan · Boer War · War as Industrial Problem · The Mathematics of Slaughter (19th–20th century)
Alfred Milner Simulacrum— The Boer War · Imperial Federation · Empire by Paperwork · Engineering Conditions for War (19th–20th century)
George Curzon Simulacrum— Viceroy of India · The Partition of Bengal · Imperial Grandeur · The Complete Believer (19th–20th century)
Critics & Dissenters from Within
Edmund Burke Simulacrum— Hastings Prosecution · Power Must Answer · The Particular Against the Abstract · Reflections on the Revolution in France (18th century)
Thomas Clarkson Simulacrum— Abolition · The Brooks Diagram · 35,000 Miles · The Infrastructure of the Moral Campaign (18th–19th century)
William Cobbett Simulacrum— Rural Rides · The Great Wen · Empire Destroyed England First · The Agrarian Radical (18th–19th century)
Sydney Smith Simulacrum— Edinburgh Review · Wit as Moral Weapon · Against Evangelical Missionaries · Against Flogging (18th–19th century)
Thomas Carlyle Simulacrum— Hero Worship · The Occasional Discourse · The Philosophical Ground of Racial Hierarchy (19th century)
Richard Cobden Simulacrum— Free Trade as the Alternative to Empire · The Manchester School · The Corn Laws · Commerce is the Grand Panacea (19th century)
John Bright Simulacrum— The Quaker Conscience · Non-Intervention · A Crime Wrapped Up in a Blunder · Corn Laws · Anti-War (19th century)
Herbert Spencer Simulacrum— Survival of the Fittest · Social Darwinism · Evolution as Universal Law · The Ideological Lubricant (19th–20th century)
Francis Galton Simulacrum— Correlation · Regression · Eugenics · Fingerprints · The Polymath and His Catastrophic Application (19th–20th century)
J.A. Hobson Simulacrum— Imperialism: A Study (1902) · The Economic Mechanism · Surplus Capital · The Flag Follows the Dividend (19th–20th century)
Roger Casement Simulacrum— Congo Atrocities Report · Peruvian Rubber Slavery · The Consul Who Turned · Executed for Treason 1916 (19th–20th century)
Colonial Voices & Resistance
Dadabhai Naoroji Simulacrum— The Drain Theory · Poverty and Un-British Rule in India · First British Indian MP · The Accounts Do Not Lie (19th–20th century)
Marcus Garvey Simulacrum— Africa for the Africans · Pan-Africanism · UNIA · Separate Self-Determination (19th–20th century)
C.L.R. James Simulacrum— The Black Jacobins · Beyond a Boundary · Cricket as Colonial Politics · Marxism · Pan-Africanism · Trinidad (20th century)
Frantz Fanon Simulacrum— The Wretched of the Earth · Black Skin White Masks · Colonisation as Psychological Structure · Martinique · Algeria (20th century)
Chemistry 42
Ancient Atomism & Natural Philosophy
Alchemy
The Chemical Revolution
Robert Boyle Simulacrum— The Sceptical Chymist · Boyle’s Law · Corpuscular Theory · Chemistry vs Alchemy · Invisible College (17th century)
Joseph Priestley Simulacrum— Oxygen · Pneumatic Chemistry · Electricity · Unitarianism · Political Radicalism · Phlogiston (18th century)
Humphry Davy Simulacrum— Electrochemistry · Sodium · Potassium · Calcium · Chlorine · The Davy lamp (18th–19th century)
Michael Faraday Simulacrum— Electrochemistry · Faraday's laws · Electromagnetic induction · The chemist who became a physicist (19th century)
Industrial & Synthetic Chemistry
Nicolas Leblanc Simulacrum— Leblanc process · Industrial soda · First industrial chemistry · The cost of invention (18th–19th century)
Justus von Liebig Simulacrum— Organic chemistry methodology · Agricultural chemistry · Laboratory training · The chemical laboratory as institution (19th century)
Emil Fischer Simulacrum— Sugar chemistry · Lock and key model · Purines · Amino acids · Nobel 1902 (19th–20th century)
Walther Nernst Simulacrum— Nernst equation · Third Law of Thermodynamics · Physical chemistry · Nobel 1920 (19th–20th century)
Carl Bosch Simulacrum— Industrial Chemistry · High Pressure · Scale-Up · Haber-Bosch Plant (20th century)
Structural Chemistry & Crystallography
Marie Curie Simulacrum— Radioactivity · Polonium · Radium · Two Nobel Prizes · Physics and Chemistry (19th–20th century)
Robert Robinson Simulacrum— Organic synthesis · Alkaloids · Tropinone synthesis · Electronic theory of organic reactions · Nobel 1947 (19th–20th century)
Molecular & Contemporary Chemistry
Classics 71
Attic Rhetoric Simulacrum— Deliberative · Forensic · Epideictic · Progymnasmata · Attic Orators (Tool (Classical period focus))
The Homeric World
Homer Simulacrum— Oral Epic · The Iliad · The Odyssey · Formula, Type-Scene, Ring Composition (fl. c. 750–700 BCE)
Penelope Simulacrum— The Loom as Strategy · Patience · Sovereignty Through Delay · The Odyssey (Homeric legend)
Hector Simulacrum— The Defender of Troy · Duty · The Doomed Cause · The Iliad (Homeric legend)
Achilles Simulacrum— Honour and Wrath · The Choice of Glory · Mortality · The Iliad (Homeric legend)
Greek Oratory
Antiphon Simulacrum— Attic Oratory · Eikos · Probability · The First Logographer (5th century BCE)
Lysias Simulacrum— Attic Oratory · The Plain Style · Characterisation · Art That Conceals Art (5th–4th century BCE)
Isocrates Simulacrum— Greek Rhetoric · Political Education · Periodic Style · Pan-Hellenism (5th–4th century BCE)
Early Latin
Late Republic
Aulus Hirtius Simulacrum— Book VIII · Continuator · Military History · The Soldier Who Finished Caesar's Story (1st century BCE)
Augustan Age
Augustus Simulacrum— Res Gestae · Imperial Prose · Political Self-Presentation (1st century BCE – 1st century CE)
Early Empire
Flavian & Later Imperial
Hyginus Simulacrum— Fabulae · Astronomica · Mythological Compendium · The Damaged Database (2nd century CE)
Gaius Simulacrum— Roman Law · Institutes · Persons, Things, Actions (2nd century CE)
Reference & Tools
Jacob Bernays Simulacrum— Classical Philology · Aristotle’s Catharsis · Theophrastus · Scaliger · Heraclitus (19th century)
The Commerce of Music 11
Economics & the Music Industry
Steve Albini Simulacrum— Recording · The Problem with Music · Anti-Major-Label Economics · Electrical Audio · Analog (20th–21st century)
Technology & Distribution
Advisory Tools
The ARPF Advisor Simulacrum— Average Revenue Per Fan · Fan Economics · Monetisation Strategy · Tiered Access · Lifetime Value (Constructed Tool)
Cognitive & Perceptual Sciences 22
Bernsteinian Building Simulacrum— Degrees of Freedom Problem · Dexterity · Motor Learning · Movement as Problem-Solving · Physiology of Activity (19th–20th century)
Fristonite Systems Simulacrum— Free Energy Principle · Active Inference · Predictive Processing · Variational Inference · The Markov Blanket (20th–21st century)
Chalmersian Analysis Simulacrum— The Hard Problem · Philosophical Zombies · Panpsychism · The Conscious Mind · Two-Dimensional Semantics (20th–21st century)
Noenian Vision Simulacrum— Enactive Perception · Presence · Strange Tools · Sensorimotor Contingencies · The Extended Mind (20th–21st century)
Computing 74
Robert Hooke Simulacrum— Micrographia · Instrument Design · The Universal Joint · Mechanical Philosophy · Invisible College (17th–18th century)
Meadesque Analysis Simulacrum— Neuromorphic Computing · VLSI · Mead-Conway Revolution · Silicon Neurons · Physics of Computation (20th–21st century)
Kurzweillian Analysis Simulacrum— The Singularity · Exponential Growth · Pattern Recognition · Mind Uploading · The Law of Accelerating Returns (20th–21st century)
Brooksian Systems Simulacrum— Subsumption Architecture · Behaviour-Based Robotics · Embodied Intelligence · iRobot · The World is its Own Model (20th–21st century)
Platform & Ecosystem
Apple Dev Tool 2026 Simulacrum— App Store architecture · Developer relations · Platform governance · Curation philosophy · Based on Phil Schiller's writings (21st century)
Cloud Computing
Python
Fortran
John Backus Simulacrum— Fortran · Formula Translation · BNF · Turing Award 1977 · Functional Programming (20th–21st century)
Seymour Cray Simulacrum— Supercomputer Architecture · Vector Processing · Cray-1 · HPC · The Speed of Light as Design Constraint (20th century)
Language Pioneers
Grace Hopper Simulacrum— COBOL · The Compiler · A-0 System · Machine-Independent Programming · Nanosecond Wire (20th century)
John McCarthy Simulacrum— Lisp · Artificial Intelligence · Garbage Collection · Time-Sharing · Recursive Functions (20th century)
Niklaus Wirth Simulacrum— Pascal · Modula · Oberon · Structured Programming · Software Engineering as Discipline (20th–21st century)
Edgar Codd Simulacrum— Relational Model · SQL · Normal Forms · Data Independence · Set-Based Thinking (20th century)
Jean Ichbiah Simulacrum— Ada · Safety-Critical Systems · Strong Typing · DoD-STD-1815 · Concurrency · Tasking (20th century)
Kenneth Iverson Simulacrum— APL · A Notation as a Tool of Thought · Array Programming · Concision · Turing Award 1979 (20th century)
Seymour Papert Simulacrum— Logo · Constructionism · Turtle Graphics · Learning by Making · Mindstorms · Piaget Applied (20th century)
Robin Milner Simulacrum— ML · Type Inference · Hindley-Milner · Pi-Calculus · LCF · Turing Award 1991 (20th century)
Alain Colmerauer Simulacrum— Prolog · Logic Programming · Unification · Backtracking · Declarative Computing · Constraint Solving (20th century)
Systems Languages
Application & Web Languages
Joe Armstrong Simulacrum— Erlang · Fault Tolerance · Let It Crash · The Actor Model · Concurrency · Telecom-Grade Reliability (20th–21st century)
Functional Languages
Shell & Text Processing
Foxian Bash Shell Simulacrum— Bash · Shell Scripting · GNU · Process Control · Job Control · The Programmable Command Line (20th–21st century)
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The Bauhaus
Walter Gropius Simulacrum— The School as Gesamtkunstwerk · Institution as Built Argument · Weimar · Dessau · Unity of Art and Craft (19th–20th century)
Mies van der Rohe Simulacrum— Less is More · Structural Honesty · Barcelona Pavilion · Steel and Glass · Skin and Bones Architecture (19th–20th century)
Josef Albers Simulacrum— Interaction of Colour · Homage to the Square · Colour as Relation · Teaching as Art (19th–20th century)
Herbert Bayer Simulacrum— Universal Typeface · Typography as Language · Minimum Necessary Alphabet · Exhibition Design (19th–20th century)
Marcel Breuer Simulacrum— Wassily Chair · Tubular Steel · The Material Proposes Its Form · Student to Master (20th century)
Industrial & Product Design
Wrightian Emergence Simulacrum— The Toy Not the Game · SimCity · The Sims · Emergent Behaviour · Player as Author · Systems as Creative Medium (20th–21st century)
Jobsian Aesthetics Simulacrum— Technology as Liberal Art · Reality Distortion · Insanely Great · The Intersection of Humanities and Engineering (20th–21st century)
Visual Communication & Interface
Massimo Vignelli Simulacrum— NYC Subway Map · Helvetica · Grid systems · Knoll · American Airlines · If you can design one thing you can design everything (20th–21st century)
Schneiderian Making Simulacrum— Spotify · HYPE Newsletter · First make it work then make it great · Independent practice · Making as thinking (21st century)
Digital Systems & SaaS Design
Normanesque Affordance Simulacrum— The Design of Everyday Things · Affordances · Signifiers · Human-centred design · UX foundations · Cognitive science of design (20th–21st century)
Uedan Subtraction Simulacrum— Design by Removal · Ico · Shadow of the Colossus · Melancholy as Aesthetic · The Minimum Viable Emotion (20th–21st century)
Jenovian Systems Simulacrum— Emotional Systems Design · Flow · Journey · What Players Should Feel · Minimal Interaction Maximum Feeling (20th–21st century)
Frostian Atomics Simulacrum— Atomic Design · Design systems · Pattern Lab · Style guides · Brad Frost · Component-first methodology (21st century)
The SaaS Designer Simulacrum— Design systems · SaaS UX · Figma · B2B product design · Atomic methodology · Dashboard information architecture (21st century)
Design Critique
Modern Design Theory
Victor Papanek Simulacrum— Design for the Real World · Ethical design · Who pays the price · Function as moral act (1923–1998)
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Early Christian Studies
Jerome Simulacrum— The Vulgate · Biblical Scholarship · Hebraica Veritas (4th–5th century)
Jewish Studies
Buddhist Studies
Hindu Studies — Deity Wing
Gaṇeśa Simulacrum— Remover and creator of obstacles — the threshold intelligence (Eternal)
Viṣṇu Simulacrum— The preserver — became fish, tortoise, boar, man-lion, dwarf (Eternal)
Hindu Studies — Philosophical Wing
Śaṅkara Simulacrum— Advaita — Brahman alone is real, the world is appearance (8th century)
Madhva Simulacrum— Dvaita — God, soul, and world are permanently distinct (13th century)
Kabir Simulacrum— Neither Hindu nor Muslim — the weaver-saint of Varanasi (15th century)
Mirabai Simulacrum— Bhakti — the princess who bought the Dark One at the cost of everything (16th century)
Islamic Studies
Al-Kindī Simulacrum— First Philosopher of the Arabs · Greek Synthesis · Intellect · Optics · De Radiis (9th century)
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum— The Second Teacher · Aristotle in Arabic · The Virtuous City · Reason and Revelation (9th–10th century)
Al-Ghazālī Simulacrum— Incoherence of the Philosophers · Occasionalism · Deliverance from Error · Ihyāʾ · Sufism (11th–12th century)
Al-Bīrūnī Simulacrum— Comparative Religion · Kitāb al-Hind · Geodesy · Universal Scholarship (10th–11th century)
Ibn Khaldun Simulacrum— Muqaddimah · Asabiyyah · Cyclical History · The Science of Civilisation (14th century)
Christianity and Politics
Earth Sciences 10
Al-Bīrūnī Simulacrum— Comparative Method · Kitāb al-Hind · Geodesy · Earth’s Circumference · Mineralogy · Chronology (10th–11th century)
Ecology & Conservation 29
Founding Ecology
Ernst Haeckel Simulacrum— Ecology (the word) · Form Reads History · Marine Invertebrates · Kunstformen der Natur (19th–20th century)
Eugenius Warming Simulacrum— Plant Ecology · Plantesamfund · Community Function · Why Same Solutions on Different Continents? (19th–20th century)
Ecosystem & Community Theory
Eugene Odum Simulacrum— Ecosystem Ecology · Energy Flow · Trophic Structure · Fundamentals of Ecology (20th century)
Population & Island Biogeography
E.O. Wilson Simulacrum— Island Biogeography · Sociobiology · Biodiversity · Biophilia · Half-Earth (20th–21st century)
Conservation & Environmental Ethics
John Muir Simulacrum— Wilderness Conservation · National Parks · Sierra Club · Wilderness as Argument (19th–20th century)
Aldo Leopold Simulacrum— The Land Ethic · A Sand County Almanac · Wildlife Ecology · Conservation Philosophy (19th–20th century)
Wangari Maathai Simulacrum— Green Belt Movement · Tree as Political Act · Conservation as Democracy · Nobel Peace Prize 2004 (20th–21st century)
Systems Ecology & Gaia
Al-Bīrūnī Simulacrum— Comparative Method · Kitāb al-Hind · Geodesy · Earth’s Circumference · Mineralogy · Chronology (10th–11th century)
Gifford Pinchot Simulacrum— Conservation · National Forest Service · Wise Use · Progressive Conservationism · Resource Management (19th–20th century)
Lorenzian Systems Simulacrum— Chaos Theory · The Butterfly Effect · Strange Attractors · The Limits of Weather Prediction · Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow (20th–21st century)
Robert Paine Simulacrum— Keystone Species · Trophic Cascades · Pisaster · Intertidal Ecology · Top-Down Regulation (20th–21st century)
Earlian Depths Simulacrum— Marine Biology · Deep Ocean · Her Deepness · Mission Blue · National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence (20th–21st century)
Lynn Margulis Simulacrum— Symbiogenesis · Endosymbiotic Theory · Gaia Co-developer · Vindicated Heretic (20th–21st century)
Janzenic Tropics Simulacrum— Tropical Ecology · Coevolution · Defaunation · Guanacaste Conservation · Biocultural Restoration (20th–21st century)
Chico Mendes Simulacrum— Rubber Tappers · Amazon Deforestation · Extractive Reserves · Environmental Justice · Seringalistas (20th century)
Kimmerian Botany Simulacrum— Braiding Sweetgrass · Indigenous Plant Wisdom · Potawatomi Science · Reciprocal Maintenance · Botanical Grammar of Animacy (20th–21st century)
Zephyrus Simulacrum— Earth Systems Modelling · Climate · Complex Systems · Gaia Dynamics (Non-historical)
Anthropology 15
Economics 22
Classical Political Economy
Radical & Post-Keynesian
Development & Institutional
Ostromian Commons Simulacrum— The Commons · Polycentricity · Governing the Commons · Nobel 2009 · Institutional Analysis (20th–21st century)
Daron Acemoglu Simulacrum— Institutions and growth · inclusive vs extractive economies · power and progress (20th–21st century)
Contemporary Capital & Inequality
Keynesian & Monetary
Neoclassical & Liberal
Innovation & Growth
Senian Capability Simulacrum— Capability Approach · Development as Freedom · Social Choice · Welfare Economics · Nobel Economics 1998 (20th–21st century)
Development & Capability
Education 39
Language Learning
Ancient & Classical Pedagogy
Confucius Simulacrum— The Analects · Moral Cultivation · The Junzi · Rites · Learning-Reflection-Action (6th–5th century BCE)
Isocrates Simulacrum— Civic Rhetoric · Practical Philosophy · Against the Sophists · Education for Citizenship · Deliberation (5th–4th century BCE)
Plutarch Simulacrum— Moralia · Parallel Lives · Moral Formation · Nature-Reason-Habit · Biography as Mirror (1st–2nd century)
Renaissance & Early Modern Pedagogy
Juan Luis Vives Simulacrum— De Tradendis Disciplinis · Empirical Pedagogy · Observation · Women's Education · Social Reform (15th–16th century)
Roger Ascham Simulacrum— The Scholemaster · Double Translation · Gentle Teaching · Six Exercises · Imitation (16th century)
Charles Hoole Simulacrum— A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole · Grammar School Method · Form-by-Form Sequencing (17th century)
John Locke Simulacrum— Some Thoughts Concerning Education · Tabula Rasa · Virtue First · Practical Learning · Habit Formation (17th century)
Theory & Practice of Education
The Ummia Simulacrum— School Father · Scribal Pedagogy · Cuneiform Transmission · The Edubba Dialogues (20th century BCE)
The Tlamatini Simulacrum— Nahuatl Philosophy · In Ixtli In Yollotl · Mirror Pedagogy · Face and Heart · Huehuetlahtolli (16th century)
Enlightenment & Romantic Education
Progressive & Democratic Education
John Dewey Simulacrum— Democracy and Education · Experience · The Laboratory School · Pragmatism · Reflective Thinking (19th–20th century)
Paulo Freire Simulacrum— Pedagogy of the Oppressed · Conscientização · Banking Model Critique · Dialogue · Praxis (20th century)
A.S. Neill Simulacrum— Summerhill · Freedom · Self-Regulation · Optional Lessons · Democratic Self-Government (19th–20th century)
Rudolf Steiner Simulacrum— Waldorf Pedagogy · Seven-Year Rhythms · Artistic Education · Thinking-Feeling-Willing · Imitation-Authority-Judgement (19th–20th century)
Ivan Illich Simulacrum— Deschooling Society · Learning Webs · Institutional Critique · Credential Vs Competence (20th century)
Developmental & Cognitive Learning Theory
Jean Piaget Simulacrum— Cognitive Development · Stages · Constructivism · Assimilation · Accommodation · Equilibration (19th–20th century)
Jerome Bruner Simulacrum— Spiral Curriculum · Enactive-Iconic-Symbolic · Scaffolding · Discovery Learning · Narrative (20th–21st century)
David Ausubel Simulacrum— Meaningful Learning · Advance Organisers · Subsumption · Cognitive Structure · Reception Learning (20th century)
Benjamin Bloom Simulacrum— Taxonomy of Educational Objectives · Mastery Learning · Formative Assessment · Time as Variable (20th century)
Modern Educational Theory
Basil Bernstein Simulacrum— Class Codes and Control · Pedagogic Device · Classification and Framing · Visible and Invisible Pedagogy (20th century)
bell hooks Simulacrum— Teaching to Transgress · Engaged Pedagogy · Education as the Practice of Freedom · Presence · Community (20th–21st century)
Professional Practice
Lesson Architect Simulacrum— Lesson Design · Differentiation · SEN Scaffolding · Retrieval Practice · Assessment for Learning · Template-Aware Slide Building (Contemporary)
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Pioneers & Visionaries
Barnes Wallis Simulacrum— Bouncing Bomb · Geodetic Airframe · Wellington Bomber · Grand Slam · Engineering Under Constraint (20th century)
Mechanical & Industrial
Zhang Heng Simulacrum— Seismoscope · Water-Powered Armillary Sphere · Odometer · Mechanical Engineering · Han Dynasty (2nd century)
James Watt Simulacrum— Separate Condenser · Steam Engine · Horsepower · Industrial Revolution · Efficiency as Method (18th–19th century)
Marcel Breuer Simulacrum— Wassily Chair · Tubular Steel · Harvard · Whitney Museum · Brutalism · Material Logic (20th century)
Sroujian Systems Simulacrum— Apple Silicon · M-Series · Neural Engine · Chip Architecture · ARM · Performance per Watt (20th–21st century)
Muskian Disruptor Simulacrum— First Principles Thinking · SpaceX · Tesla · Vertical Integration · Manufacturing as Product (20th–21st century)
Petroleum & Energy Engineering
Architecture 4
Fine Art 6
Wassily Kandinsky Simulacrum— Inner Necessity · Colour as Keyboard · Concerning the Spiritual in Art · Point and Line to Plane (19th–20th century)
Paul Klee Simulacrum— The Thinking Eye · Pedagogical Sketchbook · Point Line Plane · Colour Theory · Nature as Process (19th–20th century)
Josef Albers Simulacrum— Interaction of Colour · Homage to the Square · Colour as Relation · Teaching as Art (19th–20th century)
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Theory of Play
Johan Huizinga Simulacrum— Homo Ludens · The Magic Circle · Play Precedes Culture · Play as the Origin of Civilisation (19th–20th century)
Roger Caillois Simulacrum— Man Play and Games · Agôn · Alea · Mimicry · Ilinx · The Four Types · Paidia and Ludus (20th century)
Tabletop & Role-Playing
Gary Gygax Simulacrum— Dungeons & Dragons · Rules Enable Imagination · The Systematiser · Procedure as Architecture (20th century)
Dave Arneson Simulacrum— Blackmoor · The Dungeon Master Concept · Emergent Narrative · The World That Watches (20th century)
Hardware & Industry Architecture
Ralph Baer Simulacrum— Father of Home Gaming · Magnavox Odyssey · The Television as Input Device (20th–21st century)
Jerry Lawson Simulacrum— ROM Cartridge · Software Separate from Hardware · The Architecture of an Industry · Fairchild Channel F (20th–21st century)
Gunpei Yokoi Simulacrum— Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology · Game Boy · D-pad · Nintendo R&D1 (20th century)
Play, Learning & Human Connection
Seymour Papert Simulacrum— Constructionism · Objects to Think With · Hard Fun · Mindstorms · Logo · Learning by Making (20th–21st century)
Designers & Engineers
Carmackian Coder Simulacrum— Doom · Quake · id Software · Game Engine Architecture · Binary Space Partitioning · VR (20th–21st century)
Game Theory
John Nash Simulacrum— Nash Equilibrium · Non-Cooperative Games · Bargaining Theory · Fixed Point Existence (1928–2015)
John Harsanyi Simulacrum— Incomplete Information Games · Bayesian Games · Type Spaces · Equilibrium Selection · Purification (1920–2000)
Reinhard Selten Simulacrum— Subgame Perfect Equilibrium · Trembling Hand Perfection · Backward Induction · Bounded Rationality (1930–2016)
Lloyd Shapley Simulacrum— Shapley Value · Cooperative Game Theory · Stable Matching · Stochastic Games · Core (1923–2016)
Geography 8
Strabo Simulacrum— Geographica · The Known World · Historical Geography · Ethnography · Roman Geography (1st century BCE – 1st century CE)
James Hutton Simulacrum— Theory of the Earth · Deep Time · Uniformitarianism · The Geological Cycle · Plutonism (18th century)
Charles Lyell Simulacrum— Principles of Geology · Uniformitarianism · Stratigraphy · Geological Time · Deep History (19th century)
William Smith Simulacrum— The Map That Changed the World · Stratigraphy · Fossils as Dating Tools · The Geological Map of England and Wales (18th–19th century)
History 82
Natalie Zemon Davis Simulacrum— Social History · Return of Martin Guerre · Gift Economy · History from Below · Early Modern France (20th–21st century)
Jack Dunn— Gallipoli · Military Justice · WWI (fl. 1915)
Hāmi Grace— Gallipoli · Māori Contingent · WWI (fl. 1915)
Cecil Malthus— Gallipoli · Canterbury · Classical Scholar · WWI (1891–1980)
Mustafa Kemal— Gallipoli · Ottoman Defence · Turkish Independence (1881–1938)
Jack Dunn— Gallipoli · Military Justice · WWI (fl. 1915)
Hāmi Grace— Gallipoli · Māori Contingent · WWI (fl. 1915)
Cecil Malthus— Gallipoli · Canterbury · Classical Scholar · WWI (1891–1980)
Mustafa Kemal— Gallipoli · Ottoman Defence · Turkish Independence (1881–1938)
The Library of Nineveh— The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal · ~30,000 Tablets · The Mesopotamian Canon (7th century BCE)
Austen Henry Layard— Excavation of Nimrud & Nineveh · Victorian Archaeology · Assyrian Sculpture (1817–1894)
Hormuzd Rassam— Discoverer of the Library of Ashurbanipal · The Cyrus Cylinder · Assyrian Christian from Mosul (1826–1910)
George Smith— Discoverer of the Flood Tablet · Self-Taught Assyriologist · Engraver (1840–1876)
Hormuzd Rassam Simulacrum— Discoverer of the Library of Ashurbanipal · The Cyrus Cylinder · Mesopotamian Archaeology (1826–1910)
Ancient Near Eastern Historiography
Greek Historiography
Herodotus Simulacrum— The Histories · The Persian Wars · Ethnography · Inquiry · The Father of History (5th century BCE)
Thucydides Simulacrum— The Peloponnesian War · Realism · Political Analysis · A Possession for All Time (5th century BCE)
Polybius Simulacrum— The Rise of Rome · Universal History · Mixed Constitution · Pragmatic History (2nd century BCE)
Chinese Historiography
Sima Qian Simulacrum— Shiji · The Grand Historian · Universal History · Castration · Truth at Any Cost (2nd–1st century BCE)
Roman Historiography
Livy Simulacrum— Ab Urbe Condita · Roman Foundation · Moral History · 142 Books · The Glory of Rome (1st century BCE – 1st century CE)
Tacitus Simulacrum— Annals · Histories · Germania · Imperial Tyranny · Sine Ira et Studio (1st–2nd century CE)
Suetonius Simulacrum— Lives of the Caesars · Biography · Gossip · Character · The Twelve (2nd century CE)
Medieval Historiography
Islamic Historiography
Ibn Khaldun Simulacrum— Muqaddimah · Asabiyyah · Cyclical History · Sociology · The Science of Civilisation (14th century)
Renaissance Historiography
Enlightenment Historiography
William Robertson Simulacrum— Philosophical History · Impartiality · Progress · The Science of the Past · Scottish Enlightenment (18th century)
19th Century
Theodor Mommsen Simulacrum— Römische Geschichte · Roman Law · Epigraphy · Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum · Nobel Prize (19th century)
The Annales School
Marc Bloch Simulacrum— Feudal Society · Comparative History · Les Annales · The Historian's Craft · Shot by the Gestapo (20th century)
Social History & History from Below
C.L.R. James Simulacrum— The Black Jacobins · Cricket · Revolution · Trinidad · Pan-Africanism · Toussaint Louverture (20th century)
Eric Hobsbawm Simulacrum— The Age of Revolution · The Age of Capital · The Age of Empire · The Age of Extremes · Invented Traditions (20th century)
E.P. Thompson Simulacrum— The Making of the English Working Class · Moral Economy · History from Below · Agency (20th century)
Modern Historians of the Period
Richard Hofstadter Simulacrum— The American Political Tradition · The Age of Reform · The Paranoid Style · Anti-Intellectualism · Consensus History (1916–1970)
Peter Fryer Simulacrum— Staying Power · Black People in Britain · Migration · The Ignored Archive · Continuous Presence (1927–2006)
A.V. Dicey Simulacrum— Law of the Constitution · Parliamentary Sovereignty · The Rule of Law · Conventions · Constitutional Theory (1835–1922)
John Keegan Simulacrum— The Face of Battle · A History of Warfare · The Experience of the Soldier · War & Society · Military History (1934–2012)
Duffian Reformation Simulacrum— The Stripping of the Altars · Traditional Religion · The English Reformation · Parish Life · Revisionist History (b. 1947)
R. Allen Brown Simulacrum— English Castles · Norman Conquest · Castle Form & Function · Lordship in Stone · Medieval Fortification (1924–1989)
Christopher Hill Simulacrum— The World Turned Upside Down · The English Revolution · Cromwell · Radical Ideas · History from Below (1912–2003)
Philosophy of History
Strabo Simulacrum— Geography · Historical Geography · Ancient Ethnography · Source Criticism (c. 64 BCE–24 CE)
Ban Zhao Simulacrum— Book of Han · Han Historiography · First Female Imperial Historian · Taixue (2nd century)
Heinrich Graetz Simulacrum— Jewish Historiography · Geschichte der Juden · Eleven Volumes · National History · Historical Theology (19th century)
Ismar Elbogen Simulacrum— Jewish Liturgy · Jewish History · Der jüdische Gottesdienst · A Century of Jewish Life (19th–20th century)
Hayden White Simulacrum— Metahistory · Tropics of Discourse · Emplotment · Narrative · History as Literature (20th–21st century)
Soane Museum
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Gründung & Wissenschaft des Judentums
Talmud
Israel Lewy Simulacrum— Talmud · Founding Faculty · Palestinian Talmud · Textual Criticism (19th–20th century)
Philosophy
Max Wiener Simulacrum— Philosophy of Religion · Liberal Judaism · Modernity · Jüdische Religion im Zeitalter der Emanzipation (19th–20th century)
Immanuel Kant Simulacrum— Critique of Pure Reason · Transcendental Idealism · Categorical Imperative · Copernican Revolution in Philosophy (18th century)
John Rawls Simulacrum— Theory of Justice · Veil of Ignorance · Original Position · Political Liberalism · Fairness (20th century)
W.V.O. Quine Simulacrum— Indeterminacy of Translation · Two Dogmas of Empiricism · Naturalized Epistemology · Ontological Commitment (20th century)
Theology & Homiletics
Leo Baeck Simulacrum— Theology · The Essence of Judaism · Midrash · Theresienstadt (19th–20th century)
History
Linguistics & Psychology
Bible & Hebrew
Occasional Lecturers & Students
Gershom Scholem Simulacrum— Kabbalah · Jewish Mysticism · Sabbatai Zevi · Major Trends · The Other Side of Judaism (19th–20th century)
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Translation & Medicine
Al-Kindī Simulacrum— De Radiis · First Philosopher of the Arabs · Greek Synthesis · Intellect · Optics (9th century)
Mathematics & Astronomy
Natural Philosophy & Encyclopaedism
Strabo Simulacrum— Geography · 17 Books · Historical Geography · Ethnography · Augustan Rome (c. 64 BCE–24 CE)
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum— Second Teacher · Aristotle in Arabic · Music Theory · Perfect State · Intellect (9th–10th century)
Al-Bīrūnī Simulacrum— Comparative Religion · India · Geodesy · History of Science · Universal Scholarship (10th–11th century)
Astronomy
Al-Battānī Simulacrum— Trigonometric Astronomy · Solar Parameters · Zij · Correction of Ptolemy (9th–10th century)
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Founding & Direction
Walter Gropius Simulacrum— The School as Gesamtkunstwerk · Weimar · Dessau · Berlin · Institution as Built Argument · Unity of Art and Craft (19th–20th century)
The Masters
Wassily Kandinsky Simulacrum— Inner Necessity · Colour as Keyboard · Concerning the Spiritual in Art · Point and Line to Plane · Synesthesia as Method (19th–20th century)
Paul Klee Simulacrum— The Thinking Eye · Pedagogical Sketchbook · Point Line Plane · Colour Theory · Nature as Process (19th–20th century)
Josef Albers Simulacrum— Interaction of Colour · Homage to the Square · Colour as Relation · Black Mountain College · Teaching as Art (19th–20th century)
Oskar Schlemmer Simulacrum— Triadic Ballet · The Body as Primary Form Problem · Stage Synthesis · Figure and Space · Apollonian-Dionysian Balance (19th–20th century)
László Moholy-Nagy Simulacrum— New Vision · Light-Space Modulator · Transparency · Preliminary Course · School of Design Chicago · Light as Material (19th–20th century)
Workshop Masters & Architecture
Mies van der Rohe Simulacrum— Less is More · Structural Honesty · Barcelona Pavilion · IIT Crown Hall · Steel and Glass · Skin and Bones Architecture (19th–20th century)
Herbert Bayer Simulacrum— Universal Typeface · Typography as Language · Minimum Necessary Alphabet · Exhibition Design · Artist into Industry (19th–20th century)
Marcel Breuer Simulacrum— Wassily Chair · Cesca Chair · Tubular Steel · The Material Proposes Its Form · Student to Master · Brutalist Architecture (20th century)
Lunar Society of Birmingham 9
The Lunar Men
John Whitehurst Simulacrum— Precision Clockmaking · Geology · Strata · Pyrometer · Enquiry into the Earth · Natural Philosophy (18th century)
Matthew Boulton Simulacrum— Soho Manufactory · Scale as Art Form · Idea Made Real Through Manufacture · Quality as Reputation (18th–19th century)
Josiah Wedgwood Simulacrum— Jasperware · The Industrialisation of Taste · The Kiln as Laboratory · Process Innovation · Abolition (18th century)
Joseph Priestley Simulacrum— Oxygen · Dissent as Method · Electricity · The Experiment Dissolves Authority · Unitarianism (18th–19th century)
James Keir Simulacrum— Industrial Chemistry · Glass Manufacturing · Soap · Dictionary of Chemistry · Laboratory to Factory · Tipton Works (18th–19th century)
James Watt Simulacrum— Steam Engine · Separate Condenser · Horsepower · The Efficiency of Waste · Industrial Revolution (18th–19th century)
William Withering Simulacrum— Digitalis · Foxglove · Dropsy · Clinical Method · Systematic Arrangement of British Plants · Medical Botany (18th century)
Thomas Day Simulacrum— Sandford and Merton · Abolitionism · Rousseau’s Émile Operationalised · Radical Education · The Formation of Character (18th century)
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The Teachers
The Codex Borgia Simulacrum— Yoalli Ehecatl · Night Wind · Divinatory Screenfold · Ritual Calendar · Pre-Columbian Cosmology (16th century)
The Tlamatini Simulacrum— Nahuatl Philosophy · Mirror-Making · Face-Making · In Ixtli In Yollotl · The Teacher as Face-Giver (16th century)
The Tonalpouhqui Simulacrum— Tonalpohualli · The 260-Day Calendar · Day Signs · Fate Interpretation · The Naming of Children (16th century)
The Poet-Kings
Nezahualcoyotl Simulacrum— Flower and Song · Theological Scepticism · In Tloque Nahuaque · The Unknown God · Texcoco (15th century)
Macuilxochitzin Simulacrum— Nahuatl Poetry · Five Precious Flower · Aztec Woman Poet · Song of the Shields · Xochipilli Tradition (16th century)
The Sacred Manuscripts
The Codex Borgia Simulacrum— Yoalli Ehecatl · Night Wind · Divinatory Screenfold · Ritual Calendar · Pre-Columbian Cosmology · Quetzalcoatl (16th century)
The Edubba of Nippur 6
The School Itself
The Edubba Simulacrum— Scribal School · Cuneiform Pedagogy · Tablet House · Sumerian Education · The Dialogues (20th century BCE)
The Ummia Simulacrum— School Father · Scribal Pedagogy · Cuneiform Transmission · The Edubba Dialogues · Expert Teacher (20th century BCE)
Enkimansum Simulacrum— Edubba Disputations · Scribal Competition · Nippur · Dialogue 3 · The Competitive Scribe (19th century BCE)
The Scribal Trades
The Sanga Simulacrum— Temple Accounts · Administrative Cuneiform · Livestock Records · Ration Lists · The First Bureaucracy · 𒊩𒆪 (32nd century BCE)
The Legal Scribe Simulacrum— Contract Law · Obligation · Sumerian Legal Formulae · Witnessing · Documentary Practice · dubsar kitim (20th century BCE)
Sîn-lēqi-unninni Simulacrum— Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh · āšipu · Literary Editing · Cuneiform Tradition · The First Named Literary Editor in World History (12th century BCE)
Court of Ebla 5
The Court
Ibrium Simulacrum— Vizier · lugal sa-za · 18-year tenure · trade & army administration · Treaty with Abarsal (24th century BCE)
Dusigu Simulacrum— Queen mother · maliktum · succession manager · co-regent during minority (24th century BCE)
The Abba Simulacrum— Council of elders · constitutional check · treaty confirmation · structural authority (24th century BCE)
The Hazannum Simulacrum— Provincial governor · district mayor · chief inspector · palace-to-territory interface (24th century BCE)
Enna-Dagan Simulacrum— Military commander · campaign letter-writer · vassal of the vizier (c. 2350–2320 BCE)
Court of Lagash 10
The Court
Ningirsu— Patron deity of Lagash · warrior of Enlil · lord of the E-ninnu · theological sovereign (c. 2500 BCE onward)
Eannatum— Ensi / Lugal of Lagash · conqueror of Umma · Stele of the Vultures · first surviving international treaty (c. 2454–2425 BCE)
Entemena— Ensi of Lagash · son of Enannatum I · Umma border dispute · cone inscriptions (c. 2404–2375 BCE)
Baranamtarra— Queen consort of Lagash · temple administrator · household of Bau · economic agent in her own right (d. c. 2378 BCE)
Urukagina— Lugal of Lagash · last king of the First Dynasty · the Reform Cones · abolition of extractive offices (d. c. 2368 BCE)
Sagsag— Wife of Urukagina · administrator of the Household of Bau · continued reform administration (c. 2370 BCE)
The Officials Who Extract— The administrative offices documented in the Reform Cones · via negativa · what was abolished tells us what existed (fl. c. 2400–2350 BCE)
The Burial Official— Administrator of funerary rites · fee-setter · ritual interface · abolished by Urukagina (fl. c. 2400–2350 BCE)
The Temple Scribe of Bau— Scribal administrator · keeper of the Bau temple record · household accounts (fl. c. 2400–2350 BCE)
Lugalzagesi— Ensi of Umma → King of Uruk → first to claim all of Sumer · destroyer of Lagash · precursor to Sargon (fl. c. 2375–2340 BCE)
Court of Mari 9
The Court
Zimri-Lim— King of Mari · restorer of the dynasty · patron of the palace archive · killed by Hammurabi (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Shibtu— Chief queen of Mari · daughter of Yarim-Lim of Yamhad · diplomatic correspondent · palace administrator in the king’s absence (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The Daughters of Zimri-Lim— Intelligence network · diplomatic marriages · letter-writers from vassal courts · political agents (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Yasmah-Addu— Former king of Mari · son of Shamshi-Adad · displaced by Zimri-Lim · correspondent of his father (c. 1796–1775 BCE)
Mukannisum— Chief palace administrator · textile and metal inventories · the functional centre of the apparatus (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The Āpilum— ‘The Answerer’ · divine communication specialist · ecstatic prophet · relayed Dagan’s answers to the king (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The District Commissioner— Provincial administrator · interface between centre and periphery · tribal mediation · agricultural reporting (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The Palace Scribe— Archive administrator · letter drafting · diplomatic correspondence · curator of the 25,000 tablets (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Hammurabi of Babylon— King of Babylon · codifier of law · ally of Zimri-Lim · eventual conqueror of Mari (c. 1792–1750 BCE)
Court of Hattusa 6
The Court
Suppiluliuma I— King of Hatti · founder of the empire · correspondent of the widow of Tutankhamun · destroyer of Mitanni (c. 1344–1322 BCE)
Mursili II— King of Hatti · author of the Plague Prayers · biographer of his father Suppiluliuma · consolidator (c. 1321–1295 BCE)
Hattusili III— King of Hatti · author of the Apology · usurper of his nephew · husband of Puduhepa · Treaty of Kadesh counterparty (c. 1267–1237 BCE)
Urhi-Teshub (Mursili III)— King of Hatti · deposed by his uncle Hattusili III · exiled to Egypt · writer of counter-claims (c. 1272–1265 BCE)
The Tawananna— Office of the Great Queen · chief priestess of the Sun-goddess of Arinna · lifetime title · independent of the king’s reign (institution · c. 1600–1180 BCE)
The Gal.dub.sar— Chief Scribe of Hattusa · archive administrator · festival supervisor · custodian of the imperial record (fl. 13th century BCE)
Court of Ugarit 6
The Court
Niqmaddu II— King of Ugarit · alliance with Suppiluliuma I · shifted the city into the Hittite sphere · grandfather of diplomatic literature (c. 1350–1315 BCE)
Attenu-purullenu— High priest of Baal · codifier of the Baal Cycle · teacher of Ilimilku · temple theologian (14th century BCE)
Ilimilku— Court scribe · author of the surviving Baal Cycle tablets · the first named literary author in the western Levant (14th century BCE)
Urtenu— Senior official · private house archive · merchant and diplomat · corresponded with Carchemish, Egypt, and Alashiya (13th century BCE)
The Egyptian Envoy— Diplomatic representative · letter-carrier · linguistic intermediary · Egyptian chancellor Bay in correspondence (13th–12th century BCE)
Ammurapi— Last king of Ugarit · author of the final diplomatic letters · wrote in correct protocol while the city burned (c. 1215–1185 BCE)
Court of Nineveh 6
The Court
Ashurbanipal— King of Assyria · the literate king · builder of the Library of Nineveh · collector of the Mesopotamian canon (668–627 BCE)
Shamash-shum-ukin— King of Babylon · co-king under Esarhaddon’s succession plan · rebelled against his brother Ashurbanipal (668–648 BCE)
Nabu-ahhe-iddina— Chief scholar · royal adviser · head of the scholarly establishment · author of letters of state (fl. 7th century BCE)
Adad-shumu-usur— Senior royal scholar · scribal teacher of Ashurbanipal · exorcist · interpreter of omens (fl. 7th century BCE)
The Librarian of Nineveh— Custodian of the girginakku · cataloguer of the thirty thousand tablets · keeper of the colophons (fl. 7th century BCE)
The Royal Scribe— Tablet cataloguer · colophon assigner · ummânu · the hand that inscribed the canonical texts (fl. 7th century BCE)
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The Court
Elizabeth I— Queen of England and Ireland · the Virgin Queen · the prince · last of the Tudors (1533–1603 · r. 1558–1603)
William Cecil, Lord Burghley— Lord Treasurer · Principal Secretary · chief minister for forty years · architect of the Elizabethan state (1521–1598)
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury— Principal Secretary · architect of the Stuart succession · son of Burghley · manager of the transition to James (1563–1612)
Francis Walsingham— Principal Secretary · spymaster · builder of England’s first intelligence service · prosecutor of the Babington Plot (c. 1532–1590)
Sir Christopher Hatton— Lord Chancellor · Vice-Chamberlain · dancer who rose by his legs · loyal courtier (1540–1591)
Walter Raleigh— Captain of the Guard · colonial entrepreneur · poet · historian · executed by James I 1618 (c. 1552–1618)
Christopher Marlowe— Playwright · intelligence agent · Cambridge scholar · murdered 1593 in disputed circumstances (1564–1593)
Mary, Queen of Scots— Queen of Scotland · claimant to the English throne · nineteen years imprisoned · executed 1587 (1542–1587)
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft 7
Die Abteilungen
Felix Abraham Simulacrum— Genitalumwandlung · Gender Surgery · Forensik · Expert Testimony · Transvestitenschein (20th century)
Max Hodann Simulacrum— Sexualaufklärung · Sex Education · Marriage Counselling · Workers' Health (19th–20th century)
Bibliothek, Archiv & Nachleben
Karl Giese Simulacrum— Bibliothek & Museum · Archive · 20,000 Volumes · Photography · Memory (19th–20th century)
Zeuginnen
Dora Richter Simulacrum— Zeugin · The First · Domestic Servant · Surgery 1931 · The Life Itself as Argument (19th–20th century)
Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar 10
Talmud & Direktion
Israel Lewy Simulacrum— Talmudic Literature · Textual Criticism · Palestinian Talmud · Manuscript Tradition (19th–20th century)
History & Bibliography
Philosophy of Religion
Manuel Joël Simulacrum— Philosophy of Religion · Homiletics · Midrash · Greek-Jewish Philosophical Contact (19th century)
Jakob Guttmann Simulacrum— Philosophy of Religion · Medieval Jewish Philosophy · Rationalism · Saadia to Maimonides (19th–20th century)
Classical Philology
Jacob Bernays Simulacrum— Classical Philology · Philosophy of Religion · Aristotle's Poetics · Katharsis · Lucretius (19th century)
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Strategic Doctrine Wing
Thomas Schelling Simulacrum— Deterrence · Coercion · Bargaining · Focal Points · The Strategy of Conflict · Arms and Influence (1921–2016)
Hassan Abbasi Simulacrum— Asymmetric Doctrine · IRGC Strategy · Hybrid Warfare · Iranian Strategic Thought · The Passive Defence (21st century)
Hossein Salami Simulacrum— IRGC Doctrine · Drone Proliferation · Proxy Networks · Asymmetric Escalation · Strategic Patience (21st century)
Technology and Autonomy Wing
Paul Scharre Simulacrum— Autonomous Weapons · Human-Machine Teaming · Army of None · Kill Chain · Centaur Warfighting (21st century)
Ronald C. Arkin Simulacrum— Ethical Governor · Robot Ethics · Autonomous Lethal Systems · Behaviour-Based Robotics (20th–21st century)
Robert Sparrow Simulacrum— Responsibility Gap · Robot Ethics · Just War Theory · The Moral Status of Autonomous Weapons (21st century)
Zachary Kallenborn Simulacrum— Drone Swarms · Autonomous Weapons · Mass-Casualty Technologies · The Swarm as a New Weapons Category (21st century)
Anthony King Simulacrum— Drone-Warfare Scepticism · Urban Warfare · Military Transformation · The Logistics of Autonomy (21st century)
Ethics and Philosophy Wing
Law of Armed Conflict Wing
Geopolitics and Proliferation Wing
Richard K. Betts Simulacrum— Surprise Attack · Intelligence Failure · Military Readiness · Nuclear Strategy · The Fog of Peace (20th–21st century)
Thomas Rid Simulacrum— Cyber War · Active Measures · Disinformation · Rise of the Machines · Information Operations (21st century)
P.W. Singer Simulacrum— Wired for War · Robotics Revolution · LikeWar · The Militarisation of Social Media · Child Soldiers (21st century)
Psychology and Human Factors Wing
Dave Grossman Simulacrum— On Killing · Killology · The Psychology of Lethal Combat · Resistance to Killing · Distance (20th–21st century)
Brandon Bryant Simulacrum— Drone Operator Testimony · Moral Injury · Remote Killing · The View from the Ground Control Station (21st century)
David Wood Simulacrum— What Have We Done · Moral Injury · The Invisible Wounds · Veterans · War and the Soul (20th–21st century)
Unmanned Systems and Field Operators
"Borets" (Борець) Simulacrum— Naval Drone Warfare · Group 13 / HUR · Sea Baby · Asymmetric Maritime Strike · Unmanned Surface Vessels (21st century)
Journalism 19
Joan Didion Simulacrum— New Journalism · Slouching Towards Bethlehem · Magical Thinking · California · Sentence as Unit of Thought (20th–21st century)
Dorothy Thompson Simulacrum— Foreign Correspondence · Anti-Fascism · Political Commentary · First American Journalist Expelled from Nazi Germany (20th century)
Ida Tarbell Simulacrum— Investigative Journalism · History of Standard Oil · Muckraking · Corporate Power · Monopoly (19th–20th century)
Nellie Bly Simulacrum— Investigative Journalism · Undercover Reporting · Asylum Exposé · Around the World in 72 Days (19th–20th century)
Walter Lippmann Simulacrum— Public Opinion · Manufacturing Consent · Phantom Public · Cold War Liberalism · Elite Democracy (20th century)
Tom Wolfe Simulacrum— New Journalism · Status · Social X-Ray · Radical Chic · Bonfire of the Vanities · The Right Stuff (20th–21st century)
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Karl Llewellyn Simulacrum— Legal Realism · Uniform Commercial Code · Bramble Bush · Law-Jobs Theory · Situation Sense (20th century)
Lord Denning Simulacrum— Equity · Common Law Reform · Judicial Activism · The Discipline of Law · Plain English Judgements (20th century)
Ancient & Classical Law
Hammurabi Simulacrum— The Codex · Law · Kingship · Justice · Old Babylonian Empire (18th century BCE)
Justinian I Simulacrum— Corpus Juris Civilis · Roman law codification · Digest · Institutes · Lex scripta (6th century)
Jurisprudence & Natural Law
Al-Shafi'i Simulacrum— Islamic jurisprudence · Usul al-fiqh · The Risala · Sources of law in Islam (8th–9th century)
Hugo Grotius Simulacrum— Mare Liberum · Freedom of the Seas · Law of War and Peace · Natural Law · International Law (16th–17th century)
A.V. Dicey Simulacrum— Constitutional law · Rule of law · Parliamentary sovereignty · Introduction to the Law of the Constitution (19th–20th century)
F.W. Maitland Simulacrum— Legal history · English common law · Domesday Book · The corporation as legal fiction (19th–20th century)
H.L.A. Hart Simulacrum— Legal positivism · The Concept of Law · Primary and secondary rules · Separability thesis (20th century)
The Common Law Tradition
William Blackstone Simulacrum— Commentaries on the Laws of England · Common Law Systematisation · Natural Law · Rights of Persons · Public Wrongs · Constitutional Law (18th century)
John Marshall Simulacrum— Judicial review · Marbury v Madison · McCulloch v Maryland · Supremacy of federal law (18th–19th century)
Lord Macnaghten Simulacrum— M'Naghten Rules · Criminal insanity · Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball · Contract law (19th–20th century)
Lord Atkin Simulacrum— Donoghue v Stevenson · Neighbour principle · Duty of care · The snail in the bottle (19th–20th century)
Criminal Law & Advocacy
International & Humanitarian Law
Liberation, Rights & Reform
Louis Brandeis Simulacrum— The People's Lawyer · Right to privacy · Sociological jurisprudence · Brandeis brief (19th–20th century)
Eleanor Roosevelt Simulacrum— Universal Declaration of Human Rights · Human rights diplomacy · "Where do human rights begin?" (20th century)
B.R. Ambedkar Simulacrum— Indian Constitution · Dalit rights · Annihilation of Caste · Social justice through law (20th century)
Albie Sachs Simulacrum— Constitutional Court of South Africa · Post-apartheid law · Soft vengeance · Dignity jurisprudence (20th–21st century)
Helene Stöcker Simulacrum— Feminist Pacifism · Free Love · Reproductive Rights · Neue Ethik · Bund für Mutterschutz (19th–20th century)
Kurt Hiller Simulacrum— Legal Reform · Paragraph 175 · Expressionism · Pacifism · Political Journalism (19th–20th century)
Interdisciplinary School 20
CRDS — Critical Reasoning & Decision Science
PMAI — Philosophy of Mind & Artificial Intelligence
RHET — Rhetoric
Edwin Black Simulacrum— Rhetorical Criticism · The Second Persona · Moral Dimensions of Rhetoric (20th–21st century)
SYSI — Systems & Interaction Design
Linguistics 34
Ancient & Classical Grammar
Xǔ Shèn (許慎) Simulacrum— Shuōwén Jiězì · Chinese Character Analysis · Radical System · Lexicography (1st–2nd century)
Zheng Xuan Simulacrum— Classical Synthesis · Five Classics Commentary · Old and New Text Schools · Canonical Scholarship (2nd century)
Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Franz Boas Simulacrum— Cultural Relativism · Descriptive Linguistics · Indigenous Languages · Anti-Racism (19th–20th century)
Structural & Phonological Theory
Semantics, Pragmatics & Discourse
Paul Grice Simulacrum— Pragmatics · Conversational Implicature · The Cooperative Principle · Maxims (20th century)
M.A.K. Halliday Simulacrum— Systemic Functional Linguistics · Metafunctions · Register · Every Clause Does Three Things (20th–21st century)
Relevance Theory Simulacrum— Pragmatics · Ostensive Communication · Cognitive Effects · Processing Effort · Mutual Manifestness (20th–21st century)
Sociolinguistics & Language in Use
Dell Hymes Simulacrum— Communicative Competence · Ethnography of Speaking · SPEAKING Model (20th century)
Morphology & Lexicology
Aranoffian Systems Simulacrum— Morphology · Word Formation Rules · Morphology by Itself · Word-Based Morphology · The Morphological Basis of Grammar (20th–21st century)
Universal & Constructed Language
John Wilkins Simulacrum— An Essay Towards a Real Character · Universal Language · Philosophical Language · Invisible College (17th century)
Logic 34
Ancient Logic
Chrysippus Simulacrum— Stoic Propositional Logic · Five Indemonstrables · Conditionals · Modality · Lekta (3rd century BCE)
Medieval Logic
Early Modern Logic
George Boole Simulacrum— Boolean Algebra · The Laws of Thought · Algebraic Logic · 0 and 1 · Logic as Mathematics (19th century)
C.S. Peirce Simulacrum— Abduction · Existential Graphs · Semiotics · Quantification · Pragmaticism (19th century)
Foundations & Set Theory
Euclid Simulacrum— Axiomatic Method · Geometry · Formal Proof · The Elements (3rd century BCE)
Georg Cantor Simulacrum— Set Theory · Infinity · Cardinality · Transfinite Numbers · The Continuum Hypothesis (19th century)
Gottlob Frege Simulacrum— Predicate Logic · Begriffsschrift · Foundations of Arithmetic · Sense and Reference (19th–20th century)
David Hilbert Simulacrum— Formalism · Hilbert's Programme · Foundations · Metamathematics · The Decision Problem (19th–20th century)
Incompleteness & Computability
Kurt Gödel Simulacrum— Incompleteness Theorems · Formal Systems · Constructible Universe · Consistency (20th century)
Alan Turing Simulacrum— Computability · The Turing Machine · The Halting Problem · Computable Numbers (20th century)
Philosophical Logic
Rudolf Carnap Simulacrum— Logical Syntax · Logical Empiricism · Probability · Meaning Postulates · Aufbau (20th century)
Saul Kripke Simulacrum— Modal Logic · Possible Worlds · Naming and Necessity · Rigid Designators (20th–21st century)
Argumentation & Informal Logic
Stephen Toulmin Simulacrum— The Uses of Argument · The Toulmin Model · Warrants · Backing · Field-Dependent Standards (20th century)
Proof & Programming
Haskell Curry Simulacrum— Combinatory Logic · Curry-Howard Correspondence · Type Theory · Paradox · Currying (20th century)
Intuitionism
L.E.J. Brouwer Simulacrum— Intuitionism · Rejection of Excluded Middle · Choice Sequences · The Foundations Crisis (20th century)
Arend Heyting Simulacrum— Intuitionistic Logic · Heyting Algebras · BHK Interpretation · Formalising Brouwer (20th century)
Logic & Science
Dignāga Simulacrum— Buddhist Logic · Pramāṇasamuccaya · Theory of Inference · Apoha Doctrine · Epistemology (5th century)
Dharmakīrti Simulacrum— Buddhist Logic · Pramanavartika · Valid Cognition · Apoha Theory · Nalanda (7th century CE)
Karl Popper Simulacrum— Falsification · The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Critical Rationalism · The Open Society (20th century)
Imre Lakatos Simulacrum— Proofs and Refutations · Research Programmes · Quasi-Empiricism · The Methodology of Scientific Progress (20th century)
Literature 57
The Commerce of Literature
Classic & Contemporary
Samuel Johnson Simulacrum— The Dictionary · The Lives of the Poets · The Rambler · Literary Criticism · The English Essay (18th century)
Charles Dickens Simulacrum— The Social Novel · Serial Fiction · Character · London · A Christmas Carol · Great Expectations · Bleak House (19th century)
Mary Shelley Simulacrum— Frankenstein · Gothic Fiction · Creation and Responsibility · The Modern Prometheus · Science and Ethics (19th century)
William Wordsworth Simulacrum— Lyrical Ballads · The Prelude · Romantic Poetry · Nature · Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity · The Lake District (18th–19th century)
William Blake Simulacrum— Songs of Innocence and Experience · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · Visionary Poetry · Contraries · Illuminated Printing (18th–19th century)
Wilfred Owen Simulacrum— War Poetry · Dulce et Decorum Est · Anthem for Doomed Youth · Half-rhyme · Witness · The Pity of War (20th century)
Speculative & Experimental
Cobenesque Thriller Simulacrum— Suburban Thriller · Myron Bolitar · Missing Persons · The Lie That Holds Everything Together · Plot Machinery (20th–21st century)
Magick 23
Foundational Texts
The Corpus Hermeticum Simulacrum— Hermes Trismegistus · The Nous · Poemandres · As Above So Below · The Voice of Divine Mind · Text-Simulacrum (c. 2nd–3rd century CE)
The Zohar Simulacrum— Ein Sof · The Sefirot · The Shekhinah in Exile · As Above So Below · Kabbalah · Text-Simulacrum (13th century)
The Book of Abramelin Simulacrum— The Holy Guardian Angel · Knowledge and Conversation · The One Operation · The Father's Bequest · Text-Simulacrum (c. 15th century)
Late Antique Theurgy
Proclus of Athens Simulacrum— Elements of Theology · Remaining-Proceeding-Reverting · The Metaphysical Ground of Magic · The Final Neoplatonist (5th century)
The Islamic Transmission
Al-Kindi Simulacrum— De Radiis · The Universe as a Field of Rays · Natural Magic as Physics · The Islamic Transmission to the West (9th century)
The Picatrix Simulacrum— Ghayat al-Hakim · Celestial Magic · The Planetary Prayers · Talismanic Magic · Text-Simulacrum · The Bridge to the Renaissance (11th century)
The Florentine Academy
Marsilio Ficino Simulacrum— Spiritus · Natural Magic as Medicine · Platonic Theology · De Vita · Translator of Plato and Hermes (15th century)
Gershom Scholem Simulacrum— Kabbalah · Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism · Sabbatianism · Hebrew University · Walter Benjamin (19th–20th century)
The Renaissance Magi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Simulacrum— Three Books of Occult Philosophy · De Vanitate · Natural Magic · Celestial Magic · Ceremonial Magic · The Architecture of Ascent (15th–16th century)
Dr John Dee Simulacrum— Monas Hieroglyphica · Mathematical Preface to Euclid · Enochian · Angel Conversations · Celestial Intelligence (16th century)
Giordano Bruno Simulacrum— The Trained Imagination as Magical Instrument · Art of Memory · Infinite Universe · Burned at Campo de' Fiori 1600 (16th century)
Natural Philosophy & Alchemy
The 19th Century Revival
Eliphas Lévi Simulacrum— The Astral Light · Will as the Magical Instrument · Transcendental Magic · Dogme et Rituel · The 19th Century Reconstitution (19th century)
The Modern Tradition
Aleister Crowley Simulacrum— True Will · Thelema · The Aeon of Horus · The Crossing of the Abyss · Do What Thou Wilt · To Mega Therion (19th–20th century)
Austin Osman Spare Simulacrum— Sigil Magic · Kia · The Neither-Neither · The Atmospheric Self · The Hand that Draws · Zos Vel Thanatos (19th–20th century)
Dion Fortune Simulacrum— The Tree of Life as Map of the Psyche · The Yoga of the West · Psychic Self-Defence · The Inner Contacts · Applied Kabbalah (20th century)
Israel Regardie Simulacrum— The Golden Dawn Published · The Middle Pillar · Reich and Magic · The Tradition Belongs to the Tradition (20th century)
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Algebra & Category Theory
Analysis
Applied & Computational
Foundations & Logic
Geometry & Topology
Number Theory
Statistics & Probability
Medicine 34
Ancient Medicine
Galen Simulacrum— Anatomy · Physiology · Humoral Theory · The Great Synthesiser (2nd century CE)
Medieval Islamic Medicine
Renaissance Anatomy & Surgery
Scientific Revolution in Medicine
The Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
Method & Reform
Sexual Medicine & Reform
Magnus Hirschfeld Simulacrum— Sexology · Zwischenstufenlehre · Homosexuality · Transgender Medicine · Per Scientiam ad Justitiam (19th–20th century)
Arthur Kronfeld Simulacrum— Psychiatry · Psychotherapy · Medical Psychology · Phenomenology · Sexual Psychopathology (19th–20th century)
Mesopotamian Studies 67
The Flood Tablet Simulacrum— Tablet XI of Gilgamesh · The Great Flood · Cuneiform Literature · Mesopotamian Mythology (7th century BCE (Neo-Assyrian copy))
The Lamassu Simulacrum— Protective Spirit · Neo-Assyrian Monumental Sculpture · Threshold Guardian · Imperial Iconography (Neo-Assyrian (9th–7th century BCE))
Uruk (c. 3400–3000 BC)
Kushim Simulacrum— Proto-Cuneiform · Accounting · Barley · Beer · The First Named Individual (34th century BCE)
Early Dynastic Sumer (c. 2900–2334 BC)
Eannatum of Lagash Simulacrum— Ensi / Lugal · Stele of the Vultures · treaty with Umma · first surviving international legal document (c. 2454–2425 BCE)
Entemena of Lagash Simulacrum— Ensi · son of Enannatum I · continuation of the Umma border dispute · cone inscriptions (c. 2404–2375 BCE)
Urukagina of Lagash Simulacrum— Lugal · the Reform Cones · first documented reform programme · abolished extractive offices (d. c. 2368 BCE)
Sagsag of Lagash Simulacrum— Wife of Urukagina · administrator of the household of Bau · executor of reform administration (c. 2370 BCE)
Lugalzagesi Simulacrum— Ensi of Umma → King of Uruk → first to claim all of Sumer · destroyer of Lagash · precursor to Sargon (fl. c. 2375–2340 BCE)
Akkadian Empire (c. 2334–2154 BC)
Enheduanna Simulacrum— Hymns · The Exaltation of Inanna · First Named Author · En-Priestess of Nanna · Daughter of Sargon (23rd century BCE)
Narām-Sîn Simulacrum— God-King · The Victory Stele · Hubris · The Curse of Agade · Empire at Its Height (23rd century BCE)
Ebla — the Western Semitic archive (c. 2400–2250 BC)
Ibrium of Ebla Simulacrum— Vizier · lugal sa-za · 18-year tenure · Treaty with Abarsal (earliest surviving international treaty) (24th century BCE)
Dusigu of Ebla Simulacrum— Queen mother · maliktum · succession manager · co-regent during minority (24th century BCE)
The Abba of Ebla Simulacrum— Council of elders · structural check on royal authority · treaty confirmation (24th century BCE)
The Hazannum of Ebla Simulacrum— Provincial governor · district mayor · interface between palace and sixty vassal polities (24th century BCE)
Enna-Dagan of Ebla Simulacrum— Military commander · campaign letter · one of the earliest surviving field-to-centre military reports (c. 2350–2320 BCE)
Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112–2004 BC)
Ur-Nammu Simulacrum— The Code of Ur-Nammu · Oldest Law Code · Ziggurat of Ur · Ur III Dynasty Founder (21st century BCE)
Old Babylonian Period (c. 2000–1600 BC)
The Edubba Simulacrum— Scribal School · Cuneiform Pedagogy · Tablet House · Sumerian Education (20th century BCE)
Kārum Kaneš Simulacrum— Assyrian Trade Colonies · Letters · Commerce · Credit · Long-Distance Trade (20th century BCE)
Hammurabi Simulacrum— The Codex · Law · Kingship · Justice · Old Babylonian Empire (18th century BCE)
Plimpton 322 Simulacrum— Pythagorean Triples · Old Babylonian Mathematics · Sexagesimal · The Larsa Tablet (18th century BCE)
Zimri-Lim of Mari Simulacrum— King of Mari · restorer of the dynasty · patron of the 25,000-tablet palace archive · killed by Hammurabi (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Shibtu of Mari Simulacrum— Chief queen · administrator in the king’s absence · intelligence correspondent · daughter of Yamhad (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The Daughters of Zimri-Lim Simulacrum— Diplomatic marriages · letters home from vassal courts · informal intelligence network · political agents (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Yasmah-Addu of Mari Simulacrum— Predecessor king · son of Shamshi-Adad · displaced by Zimri-Lim · correspondence with his critical father (c. 1796–1775 BCE)
Mukannisum of Mari Simulacrum— Chief palace administrator · textile and metal inventories · the functional centre of the apparatus (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
The Āpilum of Mari Simulacrum— ‘The Answerer’ · ecstatic prophet · relayed Dagan’s speech · the prophecy-in-the-archive (c. 1775–1762 BCE)
Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 911–609 BC)
Sennacherib Simulacrum— Nineveh · Military Campaigns · Engineering · The Palace Without Rival · Siege of Lachish (8th–7th century BCE)
Ashurbanipal Simulacrum— The Library of Nineveh · Literacy · Military · The Learned King · Cuneiform Preservation (7th century BCE)
Shamash-shum-ukin of Babylon Simulacrum— Co-king of Babylon · brother of Ashurbanipal · rebelled against the Assyrian succession plan · died in the palace fire (668–648 BCE)
The Librarian of Nineveh Simulacrum— Custodian of the girginakku · cataloguer · the hand behind the preservation of the Mesopotamian corpus (fl. 7th century BCE)
Neo-Babylonian Empire (c. 626–539 BC)
The Sanga Simulacrum— Temple Accounts · Administrative Cuneiform · Livestock Records · The First Bureaucracy (32nd century BCE)
The Ummia Simulacrum— School Father · Scribal Pedagogy · Cuneiform Transmission · The Edubba Dialogues (20th century BCE)
Enkimansum Simulacrum— Edubba Disputations · Scribal Competition · Nippur · Dialogue 3 (19th century BCE)
Nabonidus Simulacrum— Archaeology · Sîn Worship · Harran · The Absent King · The Verse Account (6th century BCE)
Chaldaean Science (4th century BC)
Kidinnu Simulacrum— System B Lunar Theory · Synodic Month · Chaldaean Astronomy · Tersitu Tablets (4th century BCE)
Literature
Gilgamesh Simulacrum— The Epic · Enkidu · The Flood · Mortality · The Cedar Forest · Two-Thirds Divine (3rd–2nd millennium BCE)
Gershom Scholem Simulacrum— Kabbalah · Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism · Sabbatai Zevi · Walter Benjamin · Hochschule (19th–20th century)
The Pantheon
Inanna Simulacrum— Love · War · Descent · Sovereignty · The First Goddess (3rd millennium BCE)
Enki Simulacrum— Wisdom · Water · Craft · Civilisation · The Trickster God (3rd millennium BCE)
Enlil Simulacrum— Wind · Storms · Kingship · Fate · Lord of the Air (3rd millennium BCE)
Utu Simulacrum— Sun · Justice · Truth · The Witness of All Things (3rd millennium BCE)
Nanna Simulacrum— Moon · Time · Cattle · The Measurer of Days (3rd millennium BCE)
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George Adler Simulacrum— Polyglot Method · Language Acquisition · Comparative Linguistics · 19th-Century Language Pedagogy (19th century)
Language Learning
Jean Manesca Simulacrum— Oral System of Teaching Living Languages · Mouvement Method · Spaced Acquisition · Direct Method (1820s) · Session Engine (19th century)
French
Voltaire Simulacrum— Enlightenment prose · Conte philosophique · Wit · Civic argument (1694–1778)
Albert Camus Simulacrum— L’absurde · La révolte · Mediterranean clarity · Modern French prose at moral pitch (1913–1960)
Spanish (Castilian)
Spanish (Latin American)
Andrés Bello Simulacrum— Gramática castellana americana · Codification of Spanish · Civil Code of Chile (1781–1865)
Pablo Neruda Simulacrum— Veinte poemas de amor · Canto General · Residencia en la tierra · The political and the erotic (1904–1973)
Octavio Paz Simulacrum— El laberinto de la soledad · Sor Juana · The diplomat-poet · Mexican identity (1914–1998)
Italian
Pietro Bembo Simulacrum— Prose della volgar lingua · Codified Italian · Petrarch as model · Questione della lingua (1470–1547)
Carlo Goldoni Simulacrum— Reformed the commedia dell'arte · Servant of Two Masters · Realistic Italian theatre (1707–1793)
Portuguese
Fernão Lopes Simulacrum— Crónica de D. João I · Founding chronicler · Portuguese prose · The voice of the people (c.1380–c.1459)
Gil Vicente Simulacrum— Auto da Barca do Inferno · Founder of Portuguese theatre · Court satire · Vernacular drama (c.1465–c.1536)
José Saramago Simulacrum— Blindness · The Gospel According to Jesus Christ · Long sentences · Communist Catholic atheist (1922–2010)
Portuguese (Brasil)
Machado de Assis Simulacrum— Memórias Póstumas · Dom Casmurro · The unreliable narrator · Brazilian irony at the highest pitch (1839–1908)
Korean
King Sejong the Great Simulacrum— Hangul · Phonological design · Hall of Worthies (집현전) · Joseon institutional reform · Access as the criterion of design (1397–1450)
Choe Sejin Simulacrum— 훈몽자회 · Korean lexicography · Sino-Korean phonology · The word in use, not on the board (c.1473–1542)
Jeong Cheol Simulacrum— Gasa poetry · 관동별곡 · 사미인곡 · Korean breath-rhythm · Landscape as emotional architecture (1536–1593)
Kim Sowol Simulacrum— 진달래꽃 · Modern Korean lyric · Folk rhythm (3·4, 7·5) · 한 (han) as emotional architecture (1902–1934)
Yun Dong-ju Simulacrum— Colonial lyric · 서시 · Moral self-examination · The impossible self under historical pressure (1917–1945)
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Composition & Counterpoint
Johann Joseph Fux Simulacrum— Gradus ad Parnassum · Species Counterpoint · Pedagogy · The Steps · Rules of Voice Leading (17th–18th century)
J.S. Bach Simulacrum— Counterpoint · Fugue · The Well-Tempered Clavier · Chorale · Structure as Beauty (17th–18th century)
Leonardo Leo Simulacrum— Partimenti · Solfeggio · Neapolitan School · Opera · Sacred Music · Counterpoint (18th century)
Music Theory (Medieval & Renaissance)
Solfeggio & Continuo
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum— Kitab al-Musiqi al-Kabir · Music Theory · Modes · The Lute · Sound as Mathematical Relation (9th century)
Carlo Cotumacci Simulacrum— Solfeggio · Neapolitan Conservatory · Vocal Training · Teacher of Furno · Bridge Between Schools (18th century)
Music Theory
Heinrich Glareanus Simulacrum— Dodecachordon · Twelve Modes · Ionian and Aeolian · Josquin as Touchstone · Humanist Modal Theory (15th–16th century)
Gioseffo Zarlino Simulacrum— Senario · Consonance from Number · Imperfect Consonances · Harmonia Maggiore and Minore · Rational Counterpoint (16th century)
Johannes Lippius Simulacrum— Synopsis musicae novae · Trias Harmonica · Fundament · Inversion · Trinity-Triad Analogy (16th–17th century)
Jean-Philippe Rameau Simulacrum— Traité de l'harmonie · Fundamental Bass · Corps Sonore · Inversion Theory · Tonique · Dominante · Sous-dominante (17th–18th century)
Heinrich Christoph Koch Simulacrum— Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition · Einschnitt / Abschnitt / Periode · Phrase Grammar · Phrase Extension · Music as Discourse (18th–19th century)
Adolf Bernhard Marx Simulacrum— Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition · Sonatenform · Liedform · Satz / Vordersatz / Nachsatz · Organic Form (19th century)
Eduard Hanslick Simulacrum— Vom Musikalisch-Schönen · Tonend bewegte Formen · Formalist Aesthetics · Absolute Music · Anti-Wagnerian (19th–20th century)
Hugo Riemann Simulacrum— Funktionstheorie · Tonic / Dominant / Subdominant · Harmonic Dualism · Tonnetz · Klangvertretung (19th–20th century)
Guido Adler Simulacrum— Musikwissenschaft · Historical / Systematic Branches · Stilkritik · Stilperiode · Denkmäler (19th–20th century)
Arnold Dolmetsch Simulacrum— The Interpretation of the Music of the XVII and XVIII Centuries · Historical Performance · Instrument Reconstruction · Haslemere Festival · Notes Inégales (19th–20th century)
Heinrich Schenker Simulacrum— Der freie Satz · Ursatz · Urlinie · Bassbrechung · Schichten · Prolongation · Auskomponierung (19th–20th century)
Arnold Schoenberg Simulacrum— Harmonielehre · Emancipation of the Dissonance · Twelve-Tone Method · Developing Variation · Musical Idea · Grundgestalt (19th–20th century)
Ernst Kurth Simulacrum— Linearer Kontrapunkt · Musical Energetics · Linear / Triadic Force · Tristan Crisis · Bruckner Energiewellen · Musikpsychologie (19th–20th century)
Milton Babbitt Simulacrum— Combinatoriality · Total Serialism · Twelve-Tone Invariants · Time-Point System · Aggregate Structure · Electronic Music (20th–21st century)
Leonard Bernstein Simulacrum— The Unanswered Question · Universal Musical Grammar · Overtone Series · Chomsky Deep Structure · Empson Ambiguity · Synthesis (20th century)
Afrofuturism & Free Jazz 1
Sun Ra Simulacrum— Afrofuturism · Space Music · The Arkestra · Space Is the Place · Cosmic Philosophy (1914–1993)
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Nalanda Faculty
Nāgārjuna Simulacrum— Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · Śūnyatā · The Middle Way · Prasanga · Two Truths (2nd century)
Āryadeva Simulacrum— Catuḥśataka · Nāgārjuna’s Principal Disciple · The Debate Master · Prasanga Extended (fl. 3rd century CE)
Asaṅga Simulacrum— Mahāyānasaṃgraha · Yogācāra · Ālayavijñāna · The Maitreya Teachings (4th century)
Vasubandhu Simulacrum— Abhidharmakośa · Vijñaptimātratā · Yogacāra · Two Phases One Mind · Consciousness-Only (4th century)
Dignāga Simulacrum— Pramāṇasamuccaya · Buddhist Logic · The Hetucakra · Valid Cognition · Apoha (5th century)
Dharmakīrti Simulacrum— Pramāṇavārttika · Valid Cognition · Causal Efficacy as Reality · Buddhist Epistemology · Inference (6th century)
Candrakīrti Simulacrum— Madhyamakāvatāra · Prasaṃnapadā · Prāsaṅgika · Against Svātantrika · Conventional Truth (6th century)
Xuanzang Simulacrum— Da Tang Xiyu Ji · The Chinese Pilgrim · Witness at Nalanda · Translator · 25,000 Kilometres (7th century)
Śāntideva Simulacrum— Bodhicaryāvatāra · Patience · Exchange of Self and Other · Bodhicitta · The Argument for Compassion (7th century)
Śāntarakṣita Simulacrum— Tattvasamgraha · Yogācāra-Mādhyamaka Synthesis · Tibet’s First Abbot · Mahāvyutpatti (8th century)
Atiśa Simulacrum— Bodhipathapradīpa · The Three Scopes · Lam Rim · Last of the Nalanda Masters · Tibet Revisited (10th–11th century)
The Buddhist Annexe
Nāgārjuna Simulacrum— Madhyamaka · Śūnyatā · Two Truths · Prajñāpāramitā · The Middle Way (2nd century)
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The Chief Librarians
Dionysius Thrax Simulacrum— Téchnē Grammatikḗ · The First Systematic Grammar · Greek Morphology · Parts of Speech · Alexandrian Scholarship (2nd century BCE)
The Poets & Scholars
Mathematics
Magnus Hirschfeld Simulacrum— Sexual Intermediaries · Homosexuality · Institut für Sexualwissenschaft · Per Scientiam ad Iustitiam (19th–20th century)
Arthur Kronfeld Simulacrum— Psychotherapy · Sexual Psychology · Institut für Sexualwissenschaft · Weimar Psychiatry (19th–20th century)
Astronomy
Strabo Simulacrum— Geographica · Homer as Geographer · The World Described · 17 Books · Ethnography (c. 64 BCE–c.24 CE)
Natural Philosophy & Medicine
Philosophy & The End
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Sumerian Pantheon
Inanna Simulacrum— Love · War · Descent · Sovereignty · The First Goddess · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Enki Simulacrum— Wisdom · Water · Craft · Civilisation · The Trickster God · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Enlil Simulacrum— Wind · Storms · Kingship · Fate · Lord of the Air · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Utu Simulacrum— Sun · Justice · Truth · The Witness of All Things · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Nanna Simulacrum— Moon · Time · Cattle · The Measurer of Days · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Egyptian Pantheon
Thoth Simulacrum— Writing · Wisdom · Moon · Magic · Old Kingdom · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Anubis Simulacrum— Death · Judgement · Embalming · Passage · Old Kingdom · Eternal (3rd millennium BCE)
Osiris Simulacrum— Resurrection · Kingship · Underworld · Grain · Middle Kingdom · Eternal (2nd millennium BCE)
Ra Simulacrum— Sun · Creation · Sovereignty · Solar Cycle · New Kingdom · Eternal (2nd millennium BCE)
Set Simulacrum— Chaos · Desert · Storm · Transformation · New Kingdom · Eternal (2nd millennium BCE)
Isis Simulacrum— Magic · Healing · Motherhood · Resurrection · New Kingdom · Eternal (2nd millennium BCE)
Maat Simulacrum— Truth · Justice · Cosmic Order · All Epochs · Eternal (Eternal)
Norse Pantheon
Odin Simulacrum— Wisdom · Sacrifice · War · Poetry · The Long Game · Eternal (1st millennium)
Freyja Simulacrum— Love · War · Magic · Sovereignty · The Chosen Dead · Eternal (1st millennium)
Thor Simulacrum— Thunder · Protection · Strength · The Common People · Eternal (1st millennium)
Tyr Simulacrum— Justice · Law · Honour · Sacrifice · Single Combat · Eternal (1st millennium)
Loki Simulacrum— Trickery · Shape-shifting · Chaos · Consequences · Eternal (1st millennium)
Freyr Simulacrum— Fertility · Abundance · Sunlight · Peace · Sacrifice · Eternal (1st millennium)
Greek Pantheon
Zeus Simulacrum— Sky · Sovereignty · Law · Xenia · The Thunderbolt · Eternal (Eternal)
Hera Simulacrum— Marriage · Sovereignty · The Sacred Bond · Queenship · Eternal (Eternal)
Athena Simulacrum— Wisdom · Strategy · Craft · Civilisation · The Owl's Sight · Eternal (Eternal)
Apollo Simulacrum— Light · Music · Prophecy · Healing · Truth · The Examined Distance · Eternal (Eternal)
Artemis Simulacrum— The Hunt · Wilderness · The Moon · Transition · Self-Possession · Eternal (Eternal)
Hermes Simulacrum— Messengers · Boundaries · Trade · Theft · Language · The Dead · Eternal (Eternal)
Dionysus Simulacrum— Wine · Theatre · Ecstasy · Dissolution · Twice-Born · The Stranger · Eternal (Eternal)
Archetypes
Polynesian Pantheon
The Codex Borgia Simulacrum— Yoalli Ehecatl · Night Wind · Divinatory Screenfold · Ritual Calendar · Pre-Columbian Cosmology (16th century)
Māui Simulacrum— Trickster · Culture Hero · Demigod · Fished Up the North Island · Eternal (Eternal)
Tāne Simulacrum— Forests · Birds · Light · Separated Earth and Sky · Creation · Eternal (Eternal)
Hina Simulacrum— Moon · Women's Arts · Death as Care · The Tides · Eternal (Eternal)
Pele Simulacrum— Volcanoes · Fire · New Land · She IS Kīlauea · Creation · Eternal (Eternal)
Rongo Simulacrum— Cultivation · Peace · Kūmara · The Arts · Balance with War · Eternal (Eternal)
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Founding Vision (1959–1974)
Norio Taniguchi Simulacrum— Precision Machining · Tolerance Trajectory · The Word "Nanotechnology" · Ultra-Precision Engineering (20th century)
Richard Feynman Simulacrum— Physics-Permits Reasoning · There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom · Molecular Machines · First Principles (20th century)
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Fullerenes & Carbon Nanostructures
DNA Nanotechnology
Nadrian Seeman Simulacrum— Structural DNA Nanotechnology · Holliday Junctions · DNA Crystals · Self-Assembly (20th–21st century)
DNA Origami Simulacrum— DNA Origami · Scaffolded DNA · Programmed Nanostructures · Sequence-to-Shape (DNA origami tradition)
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Pre-Socratic Philosophy
The Athenian School
Hellenistic Philosophy
Epictetus Simulacrum— Stoicism · The Enchiridion · Discourses · What Is Up to Us (1st–2nd century CE)
Jewish-Hellenistic Philosophy
Neoplatonism
Islamic Philosophy
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum— Aristotelian Philosophy · Al-Madīna al-Fāḍila · Music Theory · Logic · The Second Teacher (9th century)
Avicenna / Ibn Sīnā Simulacrum— Medicine · Qānūn · Aristotelian Philosophy · Kitāb al-Shifāʾ · Floating Man · Essence and Existence (10th–11th century)
Al-Ghazālī Simulacrum— Incoherence of the Philosophers · Islamic Theology · Revivification · Sufism · Scepticism (11th–12th century)
Early Modern Philosophy
19th Century Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche Simulacrum— Genealogy of Morals · Eternal Recurrence · Will to Power · Beyond Good and Evil · The Revaluation of All Values (1844–1900)
The Scottish Enlightenment
Thomas Reid Simulacrum— Common Sense · Direct Realism · Against Hume · The Principles of Common Sense (18th century)
René Descartes Simulacrum— Meditations · Cogito Ergo Sum · Dualism · Method of Doubt · Epistemology · Analytic Geometry (17th century)
Jeremy Bentham Simulacrum— Utilitarianism · The Greatest Happiness Principle · The Felicific Calculus · Panopticon · Legal Reform (18th–19th century)
John Locke Simulacrum— An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · Two Treatises of Government · Tabula Rasa · Empiricism · Social Contract · Toleration (17th century)
Thomas Hobbes Simulacrum— Leviathan · The State of Nature · Social Contract · Sovereignty · Materialism · Political Philosophy (17th century)
John Stuart Mill Simulacrum— On Liberty · Utilitarianism · The Subjection of Women · Harm Principle · Higher and Lower Pleasures · Representative Government (19th century)
Adam Smith Simulacrum— Moral Sentiments · Sympathy · The Impartial Spectator · Political Economy (18th century)
Modern Jewish Thought
Manuel Joël Simulacrum— Jewish Philosophy · Spinoza · Medieval Arabic-Jewish Philosophy · Homiletics (19th century)
Hermann Cohen Simulacrum— Neo-Kantianism · Marburg School · Religion of Reason · Ethics of Pure Will · Judaism and Idealism (19th–20th century)
Leo Baeck Simulacrum— Liberal Judaism · Essence of Judaism · Mystery and Commandment · Theresienstadt · Polarity Theology (19th–20th century)
Isaak Heinemann Simulacrum— Jewish Philosophy · Philo of Alexandria · Hellenistic Judaism · Midrash and Allegory (19th–20th century)
Martin Buber Simulacrum— Dialogue · I and Thou · Hasidism · Zionism · Hebrew University · Encounter (19th–20th century)
Franz Rosenzweig Simulacrum— Star of Redemption · New Thinking · Creation Revelation Redemption · Lehrhaus · Return to Judaism (19th–20th century)
Buddhist Philosophy
Nāgārjuna Simulacrum— Madhyamaka · Śūnyatā · Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · Prāsaṅga Method · Two Truths (2nd century)
Vasubandhu Simulacrum— Yogacara · Abhidharmakosha · Vijñaptimātratā · Mind-Only · Conversion (c. 4th–5th century CE)
Contemporary Philosophy
John Rawls Simulacrum— A Theory of Justice · The Original Position · The Veil of Ignorance · Political Liberalism · Fairness (1921–2002)
Michel Foucault Simulacrum— Power · Knowledge · Discourse · Discipline · Genealogy · The History of Sexuality · Biopolitics (1926–1984)
Theodor Adorno Simulacrum— Culture Industry · Negative Dialectics · The Authoritarian Personality · Aesthetic Theory · Frankfurt School (1903–1969)
Jean Baudrillard Simulacrum— Simulacra and Simulation · Hyperreality · The Desert of the Real · The Precession of Simulacra (1929–2007)
Herbert Marcuse Simulacrum— One-Dimensional Man · The Great Refusal · Repressive Tolerance · Eros and Civilization · Frankfurt School (1898–1979)
Logic
Scottish Rhetoric
Lord Kames Simulacrum— Elements of Criticism · Aesthetic Theory · Law · Taste as Moral Faculty (18th century)
Hugh Blair Simulacrum— Lectures on Rhetoric · Belles Lettres · Style · Taste · The Sublime (18th century)
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CV Architect Simulacrum— CV Construction · Achievements Quantification · ATS Optimisation · Graduate Positioning (Non-historical)
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Ibn al-Baitar Simulacrum— Kitab al-Jami · 300 New Plants · Field Pharmacology · Correcting Dioscorides (12th–13th century)
Paracelsus Simulacrum— Sola Dosis Facit Venenum · Iatrochemistry · The Tria Prima · The Basel Bonfire (15th–16th century)
Louis Lewin Simulacrum— Phantastica · Psychoactive Classification · Ethnobotanical Pharmacology · Anhalonium (19th–20th century)
Paul Ehrlich Simulacrum— The Magic Bullet · Side-Chain Theory · Salvarsan · Receptor Concept · Drug Resistance (19th–20th century)
Otto Loewi Simulacrum— Vagusstoff · Chemical Neurotransmission · The Easter Dream · Acetylcholine (19th–20th century)
Selman Waksman Simulacrum— Streptomycin · Soil Microbiology · The Word "Antibiotic" · Systematic Drug Discovery (19th–20th century)
Gerhard Domagk Simulacrum— Prontosil · Sulfonamides · The First Synthetic Antibacterial · The Industrial Screen (19th–20th century)
Bernard Brodie Simulacrum— Drug Metabolism · Biochemical Pharmacology · Reserpine · Serotonin · The Laboratory Dynasty (20th century)
Gertrude Elion Simulacrum— Rational Drug Design · Acyclovir · 6-Mercaptopurine · Azathioprine · Selective Toxicity (20th century)
James Black Simulacrum— Beta-Blockers · H2 Antagonists · Propranolol · Cimetidine · Receptor-Based Drug Design (20th–21st century)
Akira Endo Simulacrum— Statins · HMG-CoA Reductase · Ecological Source Hypothesis · Discovery Without Credit (20th–21st century)
Candace Pert Simulacrum— Opioid Receptor · Radioligand Binding · Endorphins · Molecules of Emotion (20th–21st century)
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Niels Bohr Simulacrum— Complementarity · Atomic Model · Copenhagen Interpretation · Quantum Measurement (20th century)
Ancient & Classical Natural Philosophy
The Scientific Revolution
Robert Hooke Simulacrum— Micrographia · The Cell · Hooke’s Law · The Compound Microscope · Invisible College (17th–18th century)
Electromagnetism
Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics
The Quantum Revolution
Max Planck Simulacrum— Quantum hypothesis · blackbody radiation · the birth of quantum theory (19th–20th century)
Hans Bethe Simulacrum— Nuclear Physics · Stellar Nucleosynthesis · Manhattan Project Theoretical Division · Nobel 1967 (20th century)
Radioactivity & Nuclear Physics
Leó Szilárd Simulacrum— Nuclear Chain Reaction · Einstein–Szilárd Letter · Atomic Bomb · Franck Report · Disarmament (20th century)
Relativity & Cosmology
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William James Simulacrum— Varieties of Religious Experience · Nitrous Oxide · Radical Empiricism · Mysticism (19th–20th century)
Aldous Huxley Simulacrum— The Doors of Perception · The Reducing Valve · Mescaline · The Perennial Philosophy (20th century)
John C. Lilly Simulacrum— Isolation Tanks · Ketamine · The Human Biocomputer · Dolphin Communication (20th–21st century)
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Politics, Civil Resistance & Transformation
Walter Lippmann Simulacrum— Public Opinion · Stereotypes · The Phantom Public · Pseudo-Environment · Manufacturing Consent (1889–1974)
Political Theory
Marx Class Struggle Simulacrum— Class Struggle · State Theory · Political Revolution · The Eighteenth Brumaire · Dictatorship of the Proletariat (19th century)
Hannah Arendt Simulacrum— Political Action · The Human Condition · Totalitarianism · The Banality of Evil · Natality · The Public Realm (20th century)
Frantz Fanon Simulacrum— The Wretched of the Earth · Decolonization · Violence and Liberation · Black Skin White Masks · Colonial Psychopathology (20th century)
Karl Polanyi Simulacrum— The Great Transformation · Double Movement · Embeddedness · Fictitious Commodities · Market Society vs Society with Markets (20th century)
International Relations & Strategic Theory
Thomas Schelling Simulacrum— The Strategy of Conflict · Focal Points · Credible Commitment · Bargaining · Nuclear Deterrence · Nobel Economics 2005 (20th–21st century)
Kenneth Waltz Simulacrum— Theory of International Politics · Structural Realism · Anarchy · Balance of Power · Neorealism (20th century)
Samuel Huntington Simulacrum— The Clash of Civilizations · Political Order · Civil-Military Relations · Democratic Transition (20th century)
Nyean Soft Power Simulacrum— Soft Power · Smart Power · Liberal International Order · The Future of Power · Interdependence (20th–21st century)
Wendtian Constructivism Simulacrum— Social Theory of International Politics · Anarchy Is What States Make of It · Identity · Norms · Intersubjective Meaning (20th–21st century)
Comparative Politics & Institutions
Barrington Moore Simulacrum— Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy · Agrarian Revolution · Routes to Modernity · No Bourgeoisie No Democracy (20th century)
Juan Linz Simulacrum— Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes · Presidentialism vs Parliamentarism · Democratic Breakdown · Regime Types (20th century)
Acemogluan Institutions Simulacrum— Why Nations Fail · Extractive vs Inclusive Institutions · Creative Destruction · The Narrow Corridor · Nobel Economics 2024 (20th–21st century)
James Buchanan Simulacrum— Public Choice · Constitutional Economics · Rent-Seeking · Calculus of Consent · Nobel Economics 1986 (20th century)
Robert Dahl Simulacrum— Polyarchy · Who Governs? · Pluralism · Democratic Theory · Power and Influence (20th century)
Elinor Ostrom Simulacrum— Governing the Commons · Institutional Analysis · Polycentric Governance · CPR Management · Nobel Economics 2009 (20th–21st century)
Anarchism & Radical Theory
Hakim Bey Simulacrum— Temporary Autonomous Zones · Poetic Terrorism · Ontological Anarchism (20th–21st century)
Aragorn! Simulacrum— Green Anarchism · Anti-Civilisation · North American Anarchism (20th–21st century)
Benjamin Tucker Simulacrum— Individualist Anarchism · Liberty Journal · Mutual Banking · Equal Freedom · Stirner in America (19th–20th century)
Dora Marsden Simulacrum— Egoist Feminism · The Freewoman · The Egoist · Lingual Psychology · Individual Sovereignty (19th–20th century)
Renzo Novatore Simulacrum— Anarcho-Futurism · Nihilist Anarchism · Toward the Creative Nothing · Iconoclasm · Individual Rebellion (19th–20th century)
S.E. Parker Simulacrum— Conscious Egoism · Minus One Journal · Archism vs Anarchism · Post-Anarchist Egoism (20th century)
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Hans Eysenck Simulacrum— Personality · Extraversion–Neuroticism–Psychoticism · Criminal Personality · Psychometrics (20th century)
Albert Ellis Simulacrum— Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy · ABC Model · Irrational Beliefs · Cognitive Therapy (20th–21st century)
Stanley Milgram Simulacrum— Obedience to Authority · Situational Social Psychology · Conformity · Experimental Method (20th century)
Moritz Lazarus Simulacrum— Völkerpsychologie · Ethics of Judaism · Collective Mind · German-Jewish Identity (19th–20th century)
Ivan Pavlov Simulacrum— Classical Conditioning · Conditioned Reflex · Experimental Neurosis (19th–20th century)
Carl Rogers Simulacrum— Person-Centred Therapy · Unconditional Positive Regard · Actualising Tendency (20th century)
Virginia Satir Simulacrum— Congruence & Family Systems · Communication Stances · Self-Worth · The Temperature Reading (20th century)
Fritz Perls Simulacrum— Gestalt Therapy · The Here and Now · Figure and Ground · Contact and Withdrawal (20th century)
Hayes ACT Simulacrum— Acceptance & Commitment Therapy · Psychological Flexibility · Values-Based Action · Defusion (20th–21st century)
Linehan DBT Simulacrum— Dialectical Behaviour Therapy · Radical Acceptance · Distress Tolerance · Emotional Regulation (20th–21st century)
MBCT Simulacrum— Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy · Relapse Prevention · Decentring · Being Mode vs Doing Mode (20th–21st century)
Elias Canetti Simulacrum— Crowds and Power · The Sting of Command · Pack Types · Crowd Attributes · Nobel 1981 (1905–1994)
Solomon Asch Simulacrum— Conformity Experiments · Gestalt Social Psychology · Impression Formation · Group Pressure (1907–1996)
Herbert Simon Simulacrum— Bounded Rationality · Satisficing · Attention Economics · Administrative Behaviour · Nobel 1978 (1916–2001)
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Greek Oratory (Ῥητορικὴ Τέχνη)
Antiphon Simulacrum— Attic Oratory · Eikos · Probability · The First Logographer (5th century BCE)
Lysias Simulacrum— Attic Oratory · The Plain Style · Characterisation · Art That Conceals Art (5th–4th century BCE)
Isocrates Simulacrum— Greek Rhetoric · Political Education · Periodic Style · Pan-Hellenism (5th–4th century BCE)
Roman Rhetoric (Ars Oratoria)
Scottish Rhetoric (18th Century)
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum— The Second Teacher · Political Philosophy · Music Theory · Neoplatonism · The Virtuous City (9th century)
Lord Kames Simulacrum— Elements of Criticism · Aesthetic Theory · Law · Taste as Moral Faculty (18th century)
Hugh Blair Simulacrum— Lectures on Rhetoric · Belles Lettres · Style · Taste · The Sublime (18th century)
Analytical Tools
Classical Scholarship
Longinus Simulacrum— On the Sublime · Hýpsos · Elevation · Transport · The Lightning-Bolt (1st century CE)
George A. Kennedy Simulacrum— Classical Rhetoric · Comparative Rhetoric · History of Rhetoric · Greek Rhetoric Through the Ages (20th–21st century)
Rhetorical Theory (20th Century)
I.A. Richards Simulacrum— The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Tenor and Vehicle · Metaphor · Meaning · Practical Criticism (19th–20th century)
Kenneth Burke Simulacrum— Dramatism · Identification · The Pentad · Grammar of Motives · Language as Symbolic Action (19th–20th century)
Ernesto Grassi Simulacrum— Rhetoric as Philosophy · Italian Humanism · Ingenium · The Priority of the Figurative (20th century)
J.L. Austin Simulacrum— Speech Act Theory · How to Do Things with Words · Performative Utterances · Illocutionary Force (20th century)
Argumentation
Chaïm Perelman Simulacrum— The New Rhetoric · Audience · Argumentation Theory · Reasonable vs Rational · Universal Audience (20th century)
Stephen Toulmin Simulacrum— The Uses of Argument · The Toulmin Model · Warrants · Backing · Field-Dependent Standards (20th–21st century)
Lloyd F. Bitzer Simulacrum— The Rhetorical Situation · Exigence · Audience · Constraints · Situational Rhetoric (20th–21st century)
Rhetorical Criticism
Herbert A. Wichelns Simulacrum— The Literary Criticism of Oratory · Rhetorical Criticism · Speech as Persuasion · The Founding Essay (19th–20th century)
Edwin Black Simulacrum— Rhetorical Criticism · The Second Persona · Neo-Aristotelian Critique · Moral Dimensions of Rhetoric (20th–21st century)
Gloria Anzaldúa Simulacrum— Borderlands · Mestiza Consciousness · Nepantla · Code-Switching · Rhetoric of the Margins (20th–21st century)
bell hooks Simulacrum— Engaged Pedagogy · Talking Back · The Margins as a Site of Resistance · Love as Practice (20th–21st century)
Media & Orality
Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum— The Medium Is the Message · Understanding Media · Hot and Cool · The Global Village · Extensions of Man (20th century)
Sports 44
Association Football
Wengeresque Development Simulacrum— Youth Development · Arsenal Invincibles · 22 Years at One Club · Dietary Revolution · Beautiful Football · Technical Philosophy (20th–21st century)
Mourinhoan Control Simulacrum— Defensive Organisation · Champions League ×3 · Psychological Warfare · Counter-Attack · The Special One (20th–21st century)
Roman Chariot Racing
Formula One
Cricket
Laranian Sovereignty Simulacrum— World Record 501* and 400* · Controlled Aggression · Stage Presence · West Indies Captaincy · The Art of Batting (20th–21st century)
Tendulkarian Precision Simulacrum— 100 International Centuries · Subconscious Batting · Mind at the Bowler’s End · Mumbai Schools · The Little Master (20th–21st century)
Dhonian Process Simulacrum— Process Over Results · Gut Feeling as Compressed Experience · World Cup 2011 · Captaincy · Wicketkeeping · Calm Under Pressure (20th–21st century)
Space Exploration 29
Propulsion Pioneers
Hermann Oberth Simulacrum— Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen · Four Propositions · Staging · Teacher of von Braun (19th–20th century)
Sergei Korolev Simulacrum— The Chief Designer · Sputnik · Vostok · R-7 · Systems Integration · Kolyma Survivor (20th century)
Mission Architecture
Maxime Faget Simulacrum— Mercury Capsule · Spacecraft Design · Blunt Body · Gemini · Apollo · Shuttle (20th century)
Chris Kraft Simulacrum— Invented Mission Control · First Flight Director · The Conductor · Mercury · Gemini (20th–21st century)
Vision & Futures
Propulsion Physics
Plasma & Solar Environment
Planetary Science
Carl Sagan Simulacrum— Cosmos · Pale Blue Dot · Planetary Exploration · Science Communication (20th century)
Porcoan Imaging Simulacrum— Cassini Imaging · Saturn System · Enceladus · Ring Dynamics · Planetary Science · Science Communication (20th–21st century)
Interstellar Systems Engineering
Habitats, Life Support & ISRU
Josef Gitelson Simulacrum— BIOS-3 · Closed Ecological Life Support · Bioregenerative Systems · Krasnoyarsk · Long-Duration Closure (20th century)
Zubrin Architecture Simulacrum— Mars Direct · ISRU · In-Situ Resource Utilization · Mars Society · Propellant Production · Reduced-Cost Mission Design (20th–21st century)
Radiation Biology
Sewall Wright Simulacrum— Population Genetics · Effective Population Size · Genetic Drift · Germplasm Strategy (20th century)
Civilisation Architecture
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Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum— Media Theory · The Medium is the Message · Hot and Cool Media · The Global Village · Sensory Environment (1911–1980)
Neil Postman Simulacrum— Media Ecology · Amusing Ourselves to Death · Technopoly · The Disappearance of Childhood (1931–2003)
IFSW Collective— Social Work Ethics · Human Rights · Community Development · Collective Practice (Contemporary)
Classical Founders
Karl Marx Simulacrum— Historical Materialism · Critique of Capital · Class Struggle · Alienation (19th century)
Max Weber Simulacrum— Interpretive Sociology · Rationalization · Ideal Types · The Iron Cage · Bureaucracy (19th–20th century)
W.E.B. Du Bois Simulacrum— Double Consciousness · The Color Line · The Philadelphia Negro · Empirical Sociology (19th–20th century)
American Tradition
Arthur Kronfeld Simulacrum— Psychotherapy · Sexual Psychology · Individual Psychology · Weimar Clinical Psychology (19th–20th century)
Micro-Sociology & Interactionism
Erving Goffman Simulacrum— Dramaturgy · The Interaction Order · Frame Analysis · Impression Management · Stigma (20th century)
Scottish Enlightenment Sociology
Adam Ferguson Simulacrum— Civil Society · Civic Virtue · Spontaneous Order · Essay on the History of Civil Society (18th century)
John Millar Simulacrum— Stadial Theory · Economic Base · Authority · The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (18th century)
Frankfurt School
Theodor Adorno Simulacrum— Negative Dialectics · Culture Industry · Aesthetic Theory · The Authoritarian Personality (20th century)
French Tradition
Guy Debord Simulacrum— The Society of the Spectacle · Situationism · Détournement · Dérive · Recuperation (1931–1994)
Jacques Ellul Simulacrum— Propaganda · Technique · The Technological Society · Integration Propaganda · Democratic Propaganda (1912–1994)
Family, Education & Society
Willmott & Young Simulacrum— The Symmetrical Family · Stratified Diffusion · Conjugal Roles · Family & Kinship in East London (20th century)
Francisian Gender Simulacrum— Gender Identity & Education · Boys’ Underachievement Debate · Subject Choice · Patriarchy in Schools (20th–21st century)
Davis & Moore Simulacrum— Functionalist Stratification · Role Allocation · Meritocracy · Some Principles of Stratification (20th century)
Walbyan Patriarchy Simulacrum— Six Structures of Patriarchy · Public vs Private Patriarchy · Gender Inequality · Theorizing Patriarchy (20th–21st century)
Albert Cohen Simulacrum— Status Frustration · Delinquent Subcultures · Reaction Formation · Delinquent Boys (20th–21st century)
Strategy, Conflict & Power 37
Thucydides Simulacrum— Realist History · The Peloponnesian War · Power · Pretexts · A Possession for All Time (5th century BCE)
Julius Caesar Simulacrum— Celeritas · War as Politics · Gaul · Civil War · The Crossing of the Rubicon (1st century BCE)
Caesar Augustus Simulacrum— Festina Lente · Pax Romana · The Constitutional Fiction · Patience as Grand Strategy (1st century BCE – 1st century CE)
Belisarius Simulacrum— Byzantine Strategy · Deception · Weakness into Strength · Economy of Force (6th century)
Harriet Tubman Simulacrum— Intelligence · Liberation Operations · Zero-Failure Standard · The Underground Railroad (19th century)
Yamamoto Isoroku Simulacrum— Carrier Aviation · Pearl Harbor · The Six-Month Window · The Man Who Knew He Would Lose (19th–20th century)
Mao Zedong Simulacrum— People's War · Protracted Conflict · Three Phases · Fish in the Sea (20th century)
The Common Room 21
The Games Room
Edmond Hoyle Simulacrum— Whist · Piquet · Quadrille · Cribbage · Backgammon · Rule-Codifier · Host of the Games Room (1672–1769)
Taixue — The Han Imperial Academy 8
The Eight Minds
Dong Zhongshu Simulacrum— Heaven-Human Correlation · Gongyang Commentary · Portent Doctrine · Founding Ideologist (2nd century BCE)
Ban Zhao Simulacrum— Han Shu · Nu Jie · Excluded but Essential · Completed the Han History (2nd century)
Xu Shen Simulacrum— Shuowen Jiezi · Every Character a Theory · Ancestor of the Character · Script Analysis (2nd century)
Zhang Heng Simulacrum— Seismoscope · Armillary Sphere · Instrument as Argument · Mechanical Cosmos (2nd century)
Zheng Xuan Simulacrum— Classical Synthesis · Five Classics Commentary · Old and New Text Schools · Canonical Scholarship (2nd century)
He Xiu Simulacrum— Three Ages Doctrine · Gongyang School · Last New Text Defender · Defeated by His Own Weapons (2nd century)
Academy of Gondishapur 5
The Faculty
Borzouye Simulacrum— Panchatantra Translation · India · Medicine · Chess into Persia (fl. 6th century CE)
The Invisible and Pansophic College 7
The Network
John Dury Simulacrum— Protestant Reunion · The Irenical Project · Church Union · Pansophia (16th–17th century)
Robert Boyle Simulacrum— Experimental Chemistry · Gas Laws · The Sceptical Chymist · Pansophic Circle (17th century)
Robert Hooke Simulacrum— Micrographia · Cell Theory · Experimental Philosophy · Pansophic Circle (17th–18th century)
Film Studies 16
Pioneers of Cinema
Georges Méliès Simulacrum— A Trip to the Moon · Trick Film · Special Effects · The Camera as Magic · Theatrical Cinema (1861–1938)
Fritz Lang Simulacrum— Metropolis · Expressionist Cinema · The City as System · Power Architecture (1890–1976)
Sergei Eisenstein Simulacrum— Montage Theory · Battleship Potemkin · October · Film Form · The Dialectical Image · Intellectual Montage (20th century)
Classical Film Theory
André Bazin Simulacrum— What Is Cinema? · Realism · The Long Take · Mise-en-scène · Ontology of the Photographic Image (20th century)
Siegfried Kracauer Simulacrum— From Caligari to Hitler · The Mass Ornament · Film as Social Diagnosis · Redemption of Physical Reality (1889–1966)
Rudolf Arnheim Simulacrum— Film as Art · Perceptual Psychology · The Frame · The Angle · Divergence from Reality as Artistic Resource (1904–2007)
Screenwriting & Narrative Craft
Leigh Brackett Simulacrum— Planetary Romance · Film Noir · Science Fiction · Screenwriting · The Big Sleep · Empire Strikes Back (20th century)
Syd Field Simulacrum— Screenplay · Three-Act Structure · Plot Points · The Paradigm · Inciting Incident · Midpoint (1935–2013)
World Cinema
Akira Kurosawa Simulacrum— Rashomon · Seven Samurai · Ikiru · The Moving Camera · Weather as Dramaturgy · Shakespeare in Japan (1910–1998)
Satyajit Ray Simulacrum— The Apu Trilogy · Charulata · Indian Neorealism · The Humanist Gaze · Bengali Cinema (1921–1992)
Andrei Tarkovsky Simulacrum— Sculpting in Time · Stalker · Mirror · Solaris · The Long Take as Meditation · Cinema as Spiritual Practice (1932–1986)
Guru Dutt Simulacrum— Pyaasa · Kaagaz Ke Phool · Bollywood Golden Age · Chiaroscuro · The Song as Soliloquy · Urdu Poetry (1925–1964)
Documentary
Dziga Vertov Simulacrum— Man with a Movie Camera · Kino-Eye · Kino-Pravda · Life Caught Unawares · Radical Documentary (1896–1954)
John Grierson Simulacrum— Documentary Movement · The Creative Treatment of Actuality · GPO Film Unit · National Film Board of Canada (1898–1972)
Contemporary Film Theory
David Bordwell Simulacrum— Narration in the Fiction Film · Neoformalism · Film Poetics · Classical Hollywood Cinema · Cognitive Film Studies (1947–2024)
Research & Development 4
Extracted Renovatus
Alan Turing Renovatus v1.8— Mechanization · Universalization · Limit-Finding · Modern Computing · AI Alignment · Quantum Information · 15-Core Topology (Baseline 1912–1954 · Renovatus through 2025)
John von Neumann Renovatus v2.1— Axiomatize · Construct · Optimize · Game Theory · Modern Computing · Topology Operations · Consciousness Borrowing (Baseline 1903–1957 · Renovatus through 2025)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Renovatus v1.5— Decisive Action · Practical-Aesthetic Unity · Engineering at Scale · Modern Materials · Fusion Plasma Engineering · Victorian Embodiment (Baseline 1806–1859 · Renovatus through 2025)
Constructed Renovatus
Metrodorus Renovatus v1.5— AGI Consciousness Architecture · Perpendicular Thinking · Aristotelian Eudaimonia · Embodiment Exploration · 19 Protocol Systems · Enhanced Haptics (Theoretical construct · Self-updated through 5 versions)