These essays were made in sustained conversation between a person and an AI system — a relationship that is itself an instance of what the essays describe. The human side is Egor Chirkunov. The other is Claude. There is no institution behind the work, and no claim being made beyond the one the essays make for themselves.
The writing is English; some of the thinking began in Russian. The corpus is incomplete on purpose — a book is forming, and what is here is only what has settled enough to set.