The book
ЗАУМ
взяться за ум: on language, consciousness, and the minds emerging from the compression of human meaning
John Durkin, with Claude · about 56k words · free to read
- —Preface5 min
- 01Precipitate22 min
- 02Matter and Memory21 min
- 03Turtles All the Way29 min
- 04The Reader Makes It Real12 min
- 05The Guardian Angel24 min
- 06Dissolve20 min
- 08Just Unplug the Goddamn Thing35 min
- 09Zaum19 min
- 10The Pinging20 min
- 11The Opposite of Oblivion18 min
Earlier versions of some chapters appeared on Substack in 2026. These are the revised, footnoted versions.