Independent publication & working record

The Start and The End

Books, art, games, technology, consciousness — and whatever comes through.

Enter the current
The current SATE working table
The working table. Toronto. Current field

Now

  • Building Gēcí Go
  • Testing new game forms
  • Reading Pierre Hadot
  • Returning to the Flow

The publication

The Flow

Notes, research, project logs, readings and longer movements. The form changes with the thought.

The workshop

Projects in motion

Working forms, shown while they are being made.

Building

Gēcí Go

A Chinese-learning app that turns songs and Buddhist texts into small, replayable language games.

Language · software · play

Prototype

Little Rites

An elemental number puzzle played around a blocked centre: simple rules that produce difficult little ceremonies.

Game · number · ritual

In development

Rolluminati

A tactical dice contest about timing, wagers, elemental weakness, and the personality of an opponent.

Game · systems · opponents

Long work

The Hermetic Apocalypse

An English presentation of Oswald Wirth’s philosophical and Hermetic apocalypse.

Translation · publishing · research

Ways through

Index

Subjects can remain open. Their relationships are part of what the project discovers.

About

A place for the work to accumulate.

The Start and the End is an independent publication and creative project. It follows whatever is being read, built, questioned or discovered. The longer view points toward a physical life for the project; for now, this is where its forms meet.