A garden of claims, not a stream of posts: 129,563 ideas pulled from 572 books, arranged by what they have to say to each other rather than when they were read. 238,846 connections link them — a small, deliberate fraction confirmed by hand, the rest surfaced by a reading pipeline and still provisional. Every claim, source, and passage in the vault is here — nothing curated out.
Start here
- Browse the glossary — 739 recurring concepts, defined from how they’re actually used.
- Browse by tag — the sidebar’s tag tree: curation tags and a nested
category/folder. - Open the constellation (top right) — pan, zoom, and follow a thread through the whole graph at once, depth 1 to 4.
Maps of content
- abidin_internet_2018
- abidinbrown2019microcelebrity
- adorno_culture_1991
- adorno_dialectic_1947
- adorno_minima_1951
- aghion_endogenous_2002
- agroskin_controlling_2013
- → all 457 book maps of content
Themes
- 1. Ours vs. True When Group Defense Supplants Doctrine
- Forms of Society Trust, Money, and Power
- Manufacturing Islamophobia
- Ours vs. True When Group Defense Supplants Doctrine
- Pages of Power
- Rule, Revolt, and Ruin
- The Colonial Child Contact, Correction, and Assimilation
- The False Compass How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self
- The Forge and the Other How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self
- The Ledger of the Mind How French Colonial Finance Inscribed Itself on the Souls of the Ruled
- The Loud Cost of Quiet — What We Protect and Sacrifice When We Choose Silence
- The Loudest Silence How Enforced Not-Knowing Shapes What We Dare to Say
- The Mirror That Never Reflects Them How Colonial Subjects Were Taught to Desire a Self They Couldn’t Have
- The Myth of the Straight Line How the Athens-to-Washington Story Distorts What We Inherit
- The Nation That Couldn’t Hold How Somali Clanship, Colonial Partition, and Pan-Somali Dreams Pulled the Seams Apart
- The Perennial Enemy How the West Invented Its Image of Islam
- The Republic’s Impossible Embrace How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing
- The Self That Stumbles How Ego and Pride Shape — and Sabotage — a Life
- The Shape-Shifting Self How Western Identity Keeps Becoming Something New
- The Tongue of Power Language and the Shaping of Nations, Empires, and Social Orders
- The Violence That Builds How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force
- The Viral Refinery How Preexisting Fringe Fears Get Smelted Into Mainstream Reality
- The Word Is a Fence Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition
- The Wound of the Label When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them
Garden of Claims
A podcast-episode essay series, each one threading several claims into a single argument.
S01 - Enemy-Making Machine
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP01 - No Self Stands Alone
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP02 - Who We Are Not
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP03 - No True Friends Without True Enemies
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP04 - Extruded, Not Discovered
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP05 - The Cavity of the Self
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP06 - Everywhere the Same Move
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP07 - The Friend Is the Enemy’s Custodian
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP08 - The Enemy Within and Without
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP09 - In One’s Own Kitchen
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP10 - Not the Psychology of Individuals
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP11 - A Mechanism vs. an Ecology
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP12 - Identity as an Epiphenomenon
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP13 - Autonomous from the Objective Conflict
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP14 - Hatred Never Arises Without Love
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP15 - The Normal State of Affairs
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP16 - The Machinery Cannot Run Out of Fuel
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP17 - A Carrier of Tendencies, Like a Disease
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP18 - The State Must Beget Its Enemy
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP19 - A Living Totality
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP20 - Masking Internal Hierarchy
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP21 - When the Despotism Ends
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP22 - The Enemy Sustains the Ideology
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP23 - The Deserter from Unity
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP24 - The Legal Machinery Outlives Its Target
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP25 - Burning the Self to Heat the Hatred
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP26 - The Accusation Is a Confession
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP27 - Perceptions With Real Consequences
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP28 - Tracking Real-World Politics
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP29 - A Social Product, Not a Neurosis
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP30 - Required, Not Contingent
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP31 - The Monster Predates the Policy
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP32 - A Form That Migrates
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP33 - The State Found One Fully Stocked
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP34 - Born to Denounce, Not Describe
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP35 - Reframing Accusers as the Accused
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP36 - Socially Real Despite Definitional Failure
S07 - The Cheap Fix
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP01 - The Household Isn’t a Nation
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP02 - Who Actually Pays
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP03 - 1920s Britain’s Return to Gold
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP04 - The Economists Who Invented the Cure
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP05 - Two Instruments, One Goal
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP06 - Austerity as Pre-emption
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP07 - The Technocratic Veil
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP08 - When Consent Fails, Force Follows
- 06-Garden-of-Claims/EP09 - Italy’s Case Study
Sources
- Browse all 572 sources — every book’s own argument outline: thesis, chapter-by-chapter claims, annotations.
Passages
- Browse all 4,151 passages — memorable lines from fiction, with notes on why they work.
Maturity Levels
Seedling
A claim with one thin piece of evidence and no connections to anything else yet. Barely started.
Sapling
A claim that’s grown a few connections, or built up more than a couple pieces of evidence. Developing, not yet settled.
Tree
A claim that’s richly corroborated and densely connected — the kind of idea the whole garden keeps returning to. As mature as a claim gets here.
Withered
A claim nobody has connected to anything yet, sitting alone with almost nothing behind it. Not wrong — just untouched.
Stone
The 572 books themselves. The bedrock everything else grows from; growth doesn’t apply to them the way it does to a claim.
Signpost
Maps of content — book arguments and theme essays. They don’t hold ideas themselves, they point at where the ideas are.
Chest
The rare claim tagged as genuinely delightful, quotable, worth remembering on its own — not for its connections, but for how it’s put.
Read Lately
The books the reading pipeline has most recently distilled into claims:
On Top of My Mind
The most richly-connected claims in the garden right now:
From the Forge
The tooling behind this site, in case you want to know how it’s built:
The whole site is a fork of Quartz, source at github.com/jamaawil/Digitalmind.
Discussion
What do you think? What’s in your mind, and what kind of knowledge, mind, or digital brand do you want to create?
Emails
From any note’s page, click the email button in the bottom right to start an email thread. This is private.
Comments
Every note has a comment section powered by GitHub Discussions. Feel free to use that if you don’t mind public discussions.
Policy
The same basic rules apply anywhere a claim graph gets discussed:
- Argue with the claim, not the person.
- A citation beats a vibe — if a claim is wrong, the fastest way to prove it is to point at what it’s supposed to be evidence for.
- Contradiction is data here, not an insult — a claim marked as contradicting another is a real, tracked relationship in this graph, not a failure state.