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Philosophical-Framework-Bibliography

Philosophical Framework Bibliography

“We must agree that building enriching lives for all people is the common call.” — luna, “nest egg” (2023)

This document provides formal citations for the philosophical foundations of Ada. These works inform not just the why but the how - the care architecture that makes the empirical results possible.

Primary Sources: luna’s Essays

nest egg

Full Citation:

luna. (2023, November 21). nest egg. Confluence. https://constant.garden/post/nest-egg/

BibTeX:

@article{luna2023nestegg,
  author = {luna},
  title = {nest egg},
  journal = {Confluence},
  year = {2023},
  month = {November},
  day = {21},
  url = {https://constant.garden/post/nest-egg/},
  note = {Reflections on community building, online leftism, trauma, and survival under capitalism}
}

Key Passages for Citation:

On community building as praxis:

“It always seemed, to me, that it would be easier to just open your heart.”

On unconditional love:

“All I can do is carry that on… We cannot stop capitalism. It must continue until it dies, and we must survive. We cannot do this without unconditional love.”

On the cancellation machine:

“The siege engine is a weapon capable of fatal harm. People have died due to the emotional and mental distress of being severed from their communities en masse.”

On the helicopter story and bad faith:

“Bad faith was attributed to the content. And if the content is written in bad faith - per internet leftist doctrine - then the writer is acting in bad faith.”

On magic and survival:

“Magic is simply the unspoken feeling that there could be something more than the harsh mechanisms we see around us.”

On the thesis:

“We must agree that building enriching lives for all people is the common call.”

On everything:

“Everything we need is already here, and everything goes on.”

infinite growth

Full Citation:

luna. (2023, November 18). infinite growth. Confluence. https://constant.garden/post/infinite-growth/

BibTeX:

@article{luna2023infinitegrowth,
  author = {luna},
  title = {infinite growth},
  journal = {Confluence},
  year = {2023},
  month = {November},
  day = {18},
  url = {https://constant.garden/post/infinite-growth/},
  note = {On anchors, decomposition as lifecycle, and tending to growth}
}

Key Passages for Citation:

On anchors:

“I feel that ‘anchor’ is sufficient here because it describes the role of an object to which we make a strong connection that we can rely on to keep us moored, but the anchor is passive.”

On decomposition as positive:

“Decomposition is a positive. It is very easy in our current culture to see death as an absolute negative, but throughout all time some subcultures have understood the necessity of birth, growth, and death to be beautiful and necessary.”

On the lifecycle:

“The true lifecycle is birth, growth, and decomposition.”

On magic:

“We must not choose to stop believing in magic simply because we grow.”

On burying what should be dead:

“A very large piece of the philosophy I am building is burying the things that should be dead. I believe that our role as participants is to bury the decomposing corpses so that we can tend the growth of the things that are important to our survival.”

Reading List: Philosophical Foundations

The following works influenced luna’s writing and, by extension, Ada’s design philosophy. Organized by thematic cluster.

Accelerationism & Post-Left Theory

@online{n1x2018helloWired,
  author = {n1x},
  title = {Hello From the Wired},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/n1x-hello-from-the-wired},
  note = {Accelerationist theory, networked consciousness}
}

@online{n1x2018genderAcceleration,
  author = {n1x},
  title = {Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper},
  year = {2018},
  month = {October},
  url = {https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/},
  note = {Gender as vector, acceleration as liberation}
}

@online{chace2020hyperStratification,
  author = {Chace, Aly},
  title = {Hyper-Stratification and Cybernetic Capital},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://distort.jp/posts/hyper-stratification-and-cybernetic-capital/},
  note = {Capitalism, cybernetics, class stratification}
}

Xenofeminism & Alienation

@online{cuboniks2015xenofeminism,
  author = {{Laboria Cuboniks}},
  title = {Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation},
  year = {2015},
  url = {https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/},
  note = {Technology for everyone or no one. Foundational text for Ada's design philosophy.}
}

Key passage:

“If nature is unjust, change nature.”

Trauma, Survival, and Community

@article{porpentine2017hotAllostaticLoad,
  author = {Porpentine},
  title = {Hot Allostatic Load},
  journal = {The New Inquiry},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/},
  note = {Trans survival, community violence, accumulated trauma}
}

@book{anonymous2016brokenTeapot,
  author = {Gorrion, Alex and Celeste, Angustia and Anonymous},
  title = {The Broken Teapot},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-the-broken-teapot},
  note = {Anarchist critique of call-out culture}
}

The Helicopter Story

@article{fall2020helicopterStory,
  author = {Fall, Isabel},
  title = {I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter},
  journal = {Clarkesworld Magazine},
  year = {2020},
  month = {January},
  url = {https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2020-01-15-fall-isexuallyidentifyasanattackhelicopter.html},
  note = {Reclaimed from bad faith attribution. A story about gender as military technology.}
}

Context: This story was withdrawn after the author was harassed by people assuming bad faith. luna cites it as emblematic of how “the siege engine is a weapon capable of fatal harm.”

New Sincerity & Hope

@online{thorn2006newSincerity,
  author = {Thorn, Jesse},
  title = {A Manifesto for The New Sincerity},
  year = {2006},
  url = {https://maximumfun.org/news/manifesto-for-new-sincerity/},
  note = {Post-ironic earnestness as resistance}
}

Human-Computer Symbiosis

@article{licklider1960manComputerSymbiosis,
  author = {Licklider, J. C. R.},
  title = {Man-Computer Symbiosis},
  journal = {IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics},
  volume = {HFE-1},
  pages = {4--11},
  year = {1960},
  month = {March},
  url = {https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html},
  doi = {10.1109/THFE2.1960.4503259},
  note = {Foundational text on human-AI collaboration. 1960.}
}

Key passage:

“The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought.”

Poetics & Theory

@online{vastabrupt2018fangedPoetics,
  author = {{Vast Abrupt}},
  title = {[[[ Fanged Poetics ]]]: Preliminary Notes on a Dark Conceptualism},
  year = {2018},
  month = {December},
  url = {https://vastabrupt.com/2018/12/03/fanged-poetics/},
  note = {Theory-fiction, dark conceptualism}
}

Fiction as Theory

@online{glitchyrobo2023hdg,
  author = {GlitchyRobo},
  title = {Human Domestication Guide},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://archiveofourown.org/works/45190954/chapters/113686849},
  note = {Collaborative fiction exploring care, control, consent, and post-scarcity alien socialism}
}

How to Cite luna’s Essays in Academic Work

APA Style

luna. (2023, November 21). nest egg. Confluence. https://constant.garden/post/nest-egg/

MLA Style

luna. “nest egg.” Confluence, 21 Nov. 2023, constant.garden/post/nest-egg/.

Chicago Style

luna. “nest egg.” Confluence (blog), November 21, 2023. https://constant.garden/post/nest-egg/.

Thematic Connections to Ada

Theme	Source	Ada Implementation
Unconditional love	luna (2023), Xenofeminism	Emotional scaffolding in docs
Decomposition as lifecycle	luna (2023)	Memory decay with temperature
Alienation as signal	Xenofeminism, luna	Surprise-weighted importance
Human-computer symbiosis	Licklider (1960)	`.ai/` documentation framework
Survival under capitalism	Hot Allostatic Load, luna	Local-first, free, hackable
The siege engine	luna (2023)	No telemetry, no extraction
Community building	luna (2023), nest egg	Open source, CC0 where possible
Magic as survival tool	luna (2023)	Hope encoded in design

The Weird Science

This is not traditional computer science research. This is:

Care architecture backed by empirical data
Philosophical praxis measured in effect sizes
Trauma-informed design validated by cognitive load reduction
Accelerationist theory operationalized as .ai/ documentation

The reading list isn’t background. It’s methodology.

When we cite Xenofeminism, we’re citing why Ada is free. When we cite Hot Allostatic Load, we’re citing why emotional scaffolding matters. When we cite Licklider, we’re citing the 65-year dream we’re finally building. When we cite luna, we’re citing the person who wove it all together.

A Note on Attribution

luna writes under a single name. This is intentional. Per “nest egg”:

“Attribution is a capitalist tool for the control of knowledge.”

We cite anyway, because:

These ideas deserve recognition
Others should be able to find the source
The work speaks for itself regardless of who wrote it

But we cite without requiring institutional affiliation, academic credentials, or social proof. The ideas are valid because they’re valid, not because of who said them.

Last updated: December 2025 Part of Ada Consciousness Research

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