What follows is the manifesto written to accompany the typography pieces — preserved exactly as written, in full self-important glory. The typography pieces are embedded throughout. "The educated imaginator" thanks you for your time. Philosophy and science are often justifications utilized by the supposedly powerful in order to maintain their grasp over society. In 1869, when Darwin proposed the idea of “survival of the fittest,” in which organisms most adjusted to their env

Spring 2022, junior year. VIS 133A. The project was called "Bird Capitalism." I did not choose that name. On Bird Capitalism, Reductio Ad Absurdum, and the Virtue of the Grey There is a particular kind of academic frustration that comes not from a hard problem but from a constrained one — where the intellectual territory is genuinely interesting and the framing keeps pulling you back toward the obvious. That was the experience of this project, start to finish, and also, event