Suite à la réussite écrasante de la Vignetterie, je tiens à informer mes lecteurs de la mise en place de « البيان رقم صفر » (français : Communiqué Numéro 0 ; anglais : Noughthnet). Il s’agit d’une « fôret », d’après Sterling et al.

1. La réception de la Vignetterie

  • ‘I do not desire to read this[.]’
  • ‘More Vignetterie tradwife content 😮[.]’
  • ‘Hysterically bemus[ing]…insanity[.]’
  • ‘Did you just think of this[? D]id you send it to like everyone ever? And do you genuinely read this stuff…[?]’
  • ‘It was like entering Pan’s labyrinth.’
  • ‘Your old website was more interesting.’
  • ‘It’s in French now.’
  • ‘I have a design suggestion…’
  • ‘[I]t’s like peering into the mind of one of the half-cosmic horror half-people hybrids Lovecraft was writing about. Given written by an Asian man and most of it’s in French too, it’s probably what Lovecraft was talking about.’
  • ‘Is there a single image on the Vignetterie?’ (I replied in the negative.) ‘I assume that’s deliberate?’ ‘No, I just haven’t worked out how to make the blasted thing I use to generate it include images.’

NDLR : Toute citation ci-dessus sera attribuée à son auteur si ce dernier le demande.

2. Essays on philosophy and computer science

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

7 October 2026 · 943 words

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026 · 2,641 words

Thesis. The asymptotics of language

1 August 2026 · 30,921 words

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

17 August 2025 · 2,002 words

3. Varia

Note. Prolegomenon to a strategy to become the third AI power

8 October 2026 · 1,221 words

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

7 October 2026 · 943 words

Note. Hollow cynicism comes for Bagatz

1 October 2026 · 1,857 words

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026 · 2,641 words

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

9 August 2026 · 875 words

Thesis. The asymptotics of language

1 August 2026 · 30,921 words

Note. Subtechnopopulism

27 May 2026 · 1,453 words

Translation. Standing Together at the Institut du monde arabe

24 March 2026 · 9 words

Note. A grand unified theory of Chinese foreign policy when the zhongnanhai doesn’t really care

19 March 2026 · 170 words

Letter. Pahlavi and Rajavi

19 March 2026 · 105 words

Note. Arguing with an imaginary vulgar Marxist, and other notes on the Iran war

19 March 2026 · 1,107 words

Note. Against credulously naïve China hawkishness

14 March 2026 · 1,618 words

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

12 March 2026 · 673 words

Bibliography. To read du bon côté de la planète.

9 March 2026 · 70 words

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

9 March 2026 · 92 words

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

17 August 2025 · 2,002 words

4. Vignettes

Vignette. Ghassan Tuéni on Pakistan

7 October 2026 · 1,036 words

Vignette. Desert castles of ancient Khorezm

7 August 2026 · 43 words

Vignette. Presenting…Iran as coherent…was viewed with suspicion’

6 August 2026 · 50 words

Vignette. ‘Top haredi leader calls for Arab rule over Iserael…increased Torah study to protect the country from Arabs’

1 August 2026 · 14 words

Vignette. Comment dit-on « félicitations » en jupitérien ?

1 August 2026 · 26 words

Vignette. Talks about talks about talks about talks.

1 August 2026 · 48 words

Vignette. ‘Compared to Moldova, this is like the Riviera’

3 April 2026 · 33 words

Vignette. ‘Kidnapping is part of tourism’

3 April 2026 · 120 words

Vignette. Rectify formalism!

3 April 2026 · 27 words

Vignette. ‘…who had been sent to his dacha due to drunkenness’

3 April 2026 · 8 words

Vignette. A Lebanese Shiïte family that supports Hizbullah begins the day with the Marseillaise

3 April 2026 · 9 words

Vignette. ‘Are you not dressing in London nowadays?’—‘No need to dress for fire-fighting’

3 April 2026 · 99 words

Vignette. Ve (is that right? —ed.) république offers constitutional advice

3 April 2026 · 15 words

Vignette. « Pour moi, Hassan Nasrallah et le pape, c’est la même chose »

3 April 2026 · 12 words

Vignette. ‘Democracy should be like vodka. We’ve drunk 100 grams, and that’s good, but if we drink the bottle, well, that’d be bad’

3 April 2026 · 41 words

Vignette. ‘Fatwa on handover of precision missiles’

3 April 2026 · 2 words

Vignette. Most normal Ha’aretz reporting

3 April 2026 · 24 words

Vignette. ‘Protect the ozone layer!’

3 April 2026 · 0 words

Vignette. ‘More or less worthy for examination’

3 April 2026 · 4 words

Vignette. Mildly confusing comments from Norbert Mao

3 April 2026 · 34 words

Vignette. « An 1 de la [révolution progressiste populaire] »

3 April 2026 · 31 words

Vignette. Zaher Shah makes a Yank speak French

3 April 2026 · 9 words

Vignette. Beyrouth, ma ville

3 April 2026 · 7 words

Vignette. Postman, not mediator

3 April 2026 · 56 words

Vignette. Pakistan’s democracy medal

3 April 2026 · 27 words

Vignette. Dress the part

3 April 2026 · 56 words

Vignette. African renaissance

3 April 2026 · 148 words

Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war

20 March 2026 · 1,602 words

Vignette. Oriental cooks

19 March 2026 · 269 words

Vignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’

19 March 2026 · 6 words

Vignette. Interpellation(!) helmets(!) watermelons(!)…

19 March 2026 · 96 words

Vignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…

19 March 2026 · 90 words

Vignette. Gallivanting in 1956

19 March 2026 · 33 words

Vignette. Recent remarks by Mani Shankar Aiyar

19 March 2026 · 218 words

Vignette. ‘Those who consume fish are Mughals’

19 March 2026 · 36 words

Vignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’

19 March 2026 · 261 words

Vignette. Café arabophone

12 March 2026 · 95 words

Vignette. The British[sic] Journal of Poultry Sciences

12 March 2026 · 16 words

Vignette. An unlikely feminist.

10 March 2026 · 286 words

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025 · 334 words

Vignette. Who are you, officer?

14 November 2025 · 1,091 words

Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.

14 November 2025 · 303 words

Bibliography. To (re)read.

13 September 2025 · 53 words

Vignette. A live wordcount for LaTeX.

13 September 2025 · 78 words

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025 · 21 words

Vignette. Books that lie flat.

13 September 2025 · 39 words

Vignette. C.A.R. Hoare at Jowett

13 September 2025 · 12 words

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025 · 158 words

Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.

11 September 2025 · 2,082 words

Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.

17 August 2025 · 195 words

Vignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade

17 August 2025 · 18 words

Vignette. Plodwatch I.

18 July 2025 · 1,464 words

Vignette. From the University Act 1854.

16 July 2025 · 92 words

Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.

16 July 2025 · 2 words

Vignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».

16 July 2025 · 5 words

Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.

16 July 2025 · 216 words

Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

16 July 2025 · 52 words

Vignette. Fresh cookies on demand.

16 July 2025 · 58 words

Vignette. Songs of the President of Turkmenistan.

16 June 2025 · 1 word

Vignette. On Paul Mashatile.

16 June 2025 · 128 words

Vignette. « Un député du Nord appelle à l’intégration du Liban... dans l’OTAN. »

16 June 2025 · 13 words

Vignette. LaTeX for philosophers.

16 June 2025 · 298 words

Vignette. Are those eggs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

16 June 2025 · 243 words

Vignette. Lentils with sausages.

14 June 2025 · 124 words

Vignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’

14 June 2025 · 142 words

Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.

14 June 2025 · 84 words

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

14 June 2025 · 4 words

Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’

14 June 2025 · 6 words

Vignette. Ottoman senators.

11 June 2025 · 75 words

Vignette. ‘The day of refusal to obey an order’.

10 June 2025 · 111 words

Vignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.

10 June 2025 · 48 words

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

9 June 2025 · 845 words

Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.

9 June 2025 · 8 words

Vignette. The Levesque–van Em Boas invariance thesis.

28 May 2025 · 96 words

Vignette. Doors.

28 May 2025 · 39 words

Vignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.

11 January 2025 · 145 words

Vignette. No retreat.

11 January 2025 · 50 words

Vignette. British commentators on Syria in early December.

11 January 2025 · 44 words

Vignette. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: the fifty-first state?

11 January 2025 · 43 words

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025 · 250 words

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025 · 102 words

Vignette. Arabic signs.

11 January 2025 · 68 words

Vignette. ‘Ahem! Your Excellency, you are in contempt of court.’

11 January 2025 · 278 words

Vignette. The Indian Institute.

11 January 2025 · 39 words

Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.

11 January 2025 · 38 words

Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?

3 January 2025 · 12 words

Vignette. Edwin Cameron on L.C. Steyn.

2 January 2025 · 19 words

Vignette. Classical Chinese poems in English.

2 January 2025 · 8 words

Letter. A letter on binding.

2 January 2025 · 407 words

Vignette. Le décès de Gebran Tuéni.

12 December 2024 · 716 words

Vignette. Ariel Rubinstein…

9 November 2024 · 402 words

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024 · 170 words

Vignette. Décret 71.

9 November 2024 · 147 words

Vignette. A chicken stew.

9 November 2024 · 372 words

Vignette. À nous qui demandons aux Libanais « comment ca va ? »

9 November 2024 · 213 words

Vignette. Crispy purple broccoli.

9 November 2024 · 119 words

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

29 June 2024 · 170 words

Vignette. Lentils for the garlic-addled.

7 May 2024 · 94 words

Vignette. Calcutta and Mumbai locals.

20 April 2024 · 29 words

Vignette. The twilight of Privy Council appeals.

20 April 2024 · 35 words

Vignette. Suspension totale des activités politiques ?

20 April 2024 · 59 words

Vignette. « Le dernier gay ».

20 April 2024 · 36 words

Vignette. Sino-British relations.

24 March 2024 · 29 words

Vignette. A salmon recipe.

20 March 2024 · 247 words

Vignette. On the A1.

5 February 2024 · 57 words

Vignette. Two reviews.

1 February 2024 · 13 words

Vignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.

1 February 2024 · 2 words

Vignette. Land Rover made bicycles.

1 February 2024 · 14 words

Vignette. Rory Stewart in the TLS on Afghanistan and plans.

18 January 2024 · 325 words

Vignette. A ‘conundrum of visual perception’.

18 January 2024 · 402 words

Letter. Professor Chenoy on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

18 January 2024 · 54 words

Vignette. ‘I have no quarrel with your decision to close the correspondence on the editorial policy of the EPW (in fact, I suggested it.)’

18 January 2024 · 52 words

Vignette. « C’est mon devoir. »

17 June 2022 · 44 words

Vignette. Henriette Caillaux.

17 June 2022 · 37 words

Vignette. Daniel Rothschild on Timothy Wiliamson.

17 June 2022 · 121 words

Vignette. Chris Mullin’s diary in the LRB.

2 April 2022 · 4 words

Vignette. A ‘review without expedition’.

8 January 2022 · 3 words

Vignette. Circular and miscellaneous walks thence and possibly thither.

8 January 2022 · 282 words

Vignette. Oxford exam results and school status.

8 January 2022 · 1 word

Vignette. The Elizabethan, meticulously digitised.

8 January 2022 · 3 words

Vignette. The plural of octopus…

6 January 2022 · 4 words

Vignette. ‘Missing persons bill has gone “missing”’.

6 January 2022 · 10 words

Vignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.

17 December 2021 · 81 words

5. Étiquettes

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6. Taxa

Person (752) • Reference (452) • Recueil (198) • Vignette (119) • Note (19) • Letter (5) • Bibliography (2) • Definition (2) • Draft (1) • Régime (1) • Thesis (1) • Translation (1)