Zettelgarten

This is the zettelgarten of Spencer Saar Cavanaugh, an experimental knowledge graph blending the zettelkasten method with the spirit of digital gardening. The primary purpose of this zettelgarten is to cultivate knowledge in a public manner, and to provide an auditable intellectual substrate for published discourse (see Writing).

Content

Reading Notes

Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- r-TP-CS-Hub (scanned notes)
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- r-NM-TP-Hub (scanned notes)
Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
- r-NM-DL-Hub (scanned notes)
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
- r-NM-AW-Hub (scanned notes)
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
- r-FH-RS-Hub (scanned notes)
The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich Hayek
- r-FH-CL-Hub (scanned notes)
The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayek
- r-FH-UK-Hub (scanned notes)
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
- r-HG-PP-Hub (scanned notes)
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- r-Lu-NT-Hub (scanned notes)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
- r-JK-GT-Hub (scanned notes)
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- r-JR-DO-Hub (scanned notes)
The Federalist Papers by Publius
- r-Pu-FP-Hub (scanned notes)

Canvassing

The following content is a discursive “canvassing” exercise intended to: process ideas and prime them for more formal publication; foreground thought processes in the spirit of auto-discourse (see A Primer on Auto-Discourse); garner feedback from peers; establish conceptual provenance for ideonomic archiving purposes.

Psychocartography Notes

The following notes were taken by hand in 2019 as an inquiry into how ideas and values can be mapped. For more information about the nature of this inquiry, see A Rhapsody on Neurodiversity. In 2024, they were scanned and uploaded to Arweave, and PDF links are listed below.

Date	Title
2019-??-??	Evacuative Reorientation of Ideology
2019-??-??	Ontological Duplicity
2019-??-??	Pretextual & Textual Activity
2019-??-??	Structure as the Interior of Extremes
2019-??-??	Untitled Diagram of Arbitrary Measurement
2019-??-??	Untitled Diagram of Linear and Circular Placement
2019-??-??	Untitled Notes on Horizontal Integration
2019-??-??	Untitled Partial Inventory A
2019-??-??	Untitled Partial Inventory B
2019-??-??	Comment on The Dialectical Method and My Identity
2019-04-21	Psychocartography Brain Dump
2019-05-04	Dialectical Metabinaries
2019-06-01	Intended & Actual Movement
2019-06-02	Ideological Plasticity and Elasticity
2019-06-06	Positive & Negative Information
2019-06-09	Untitled Notes on Dispersion
2019-06-29	Perpetually Recalibrating Relativity of Value
2019-07-09	A Treatise on the Intersubjective Economy of Morality
2019-07-09	Topography of Ideology
2019-07-30	Binary/Triadic Orientation of Object/Subject
2019-08-??	Subjective Matrix
2019-08-06	Partiality and Entirety in the Eligibility of Binary Distinctions
2019-08-08	The Three Axes of Striation
2019-08-15	Reform and Revolution
2019-08-18	Intentional/Effecual Difference
2019-08-18	Relevant Vocabulary
2019-09-15	Holistic Dichotomization
2019-09-24	The Approximation of the Goal
2019-10-01	Fringe Acumen
2019-10-13	Archive Series 0001 Content

Scoping Documents

These documents are generated programmatically via AI, according to frameworks and directives I provide (see Scoping Document Framework). They serve as preliminary structural outlines for projects, as points of departure for more intentional refinement.

Methodology

File Naming

Reference Note Format

“r-AuthorInitials-TitleInitials-1” or “r-JK-GT-1”

For example, the first note made primarily in reference to John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory would be r-JK-GT-1, the second would be r-JK-GT-2, etc. See this Reddit post for more information.

This method permits the interstitial inclusion of recursive reference notes, along the lines of folgezettel. For example, note r-JK-GT-1a could be made in reference to r-JK-GT-1, perhaps as a correction or an elaboration.

File Storage

Arweave is the primary storage solution for this zettelkasten. Arweave hashes function as the primary URIs for inline images, videos, and other media.

MALjimE4g6_dO_DOWwbA_LOPOCNQkjI2v2aL3oYuG3w

For example, the following markdown code renders the subsequent image in the browser:

![The Baths of Caracalla](https://arweave.net/MALjimE4g6_dO_DOWwbA_LOPOCNQkjI2v2aL3oYuG3w)

The Baths of Caracalla

Arweave hashes are also used as URIs in frontmatter for page metadata. For example, page banners are expressed as:

bannerURI: https://arweave.net/1OCpB8IN7kO8LiEOoutCLSSyGbHLHfhoJSQoloN_Y5g

Frontmatter

Below is the full annotated frontmatter for the pages on this site. Not all pages will use all of the fields, and many of the fields are not required. Additionally, some of the fields are specific to this particular Quartz site(such as the ‘quartzShowGraph’ field). Some field are still in development.

Arweave is the preferred permanent storage solution for this site’s static assets, with content accessible via Arweave-based URIs.

## Page Metadata
abstract: # Abstract of the page or publication
aiContribution: # Details about AI assistance in creating the content
  aiModel: # The AI model used (e.g., Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4)
  aiRole: # The role the AI played (e.g., Primary content generator, Research assistant)
  aiScope: # Description of what the AI contributed
author: # Author of the page (visualized by 'AuthorName.tsx', 'LicenseInfo.tsx', and 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
authorURL: # URL of the author (visualized by 'LicenseInfo.tsx')
bannerURI: # URI of the banner image (Arweave is preferred; visualized by 'Banner.tsx'; converted into HTML 'og:image' tag and 'twitter:image' tag by 'Head.tsx')
date: # Date of the page (visualized by 'Date.tsx', 'LicenseInfo.tsx', and 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
degree: # Degree associated with the publication
department: # Department associated with the publication
doi: # DOI of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
edition: # Edition of the publication
headDescription: # Description of the page (Converted into HTML meta description tag by 'Head.tsx')
headIcon: # URI of the icon image (Arweave is preferred; converted into HTML icon tag by 'Head.tsx')
hideComments: # Whether comments should be hidden on the page (true or false)
institution: # Institution associated with the publication
issue: # Issue number of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
journal: # Journal of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
keywords: # Keywords for the page or publication
language: en # Language of the publication
license: # License of the publication (visualized by 'LicenseInfo.tsx')
ogSiteName: # Open Graph site name for social media sharing
ogType: # Open Graph type for social media sharing
pages: # Page numbers of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
publish: true # Whether the page is published (true or false)
publisher: # Publisher of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
publisherLocation: # Publisher location of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
quartzShowBacklinks: true # Whether the 'Backlinks.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowBanner: # Whether the banner image is shown (true or false)
quartzShowCitation: true # Whether the 'CitationGenerator.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowExplorer: true # Whether the 'Explorer.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowFlex: true # Whether the 'FlexContainer.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowGraph: true # Whether the 'Graph.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzSearch: true # Whether the contents of the pages are indexed to be searchable by the 'Search.tsx' component (true or false)
quartzShowSubtitle: true # Whether the 'ArticleSubtitle.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowTitle: true # Whether the 'ArticleTitle.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
quartzShowTOC: true # Whether the 'TableOfContents.tsx' component is shown (true or false)
sponsor: # Sponsor information if applicable
structuredData: # Structured data for SEO and machine readability
subtitle: # Subtitle of the page (visualized by 'ArticleSubtitle.tsx')
tags: # An array of tags for the page (visualized by 'TagList.tsx'; supports sub-tags)
title: # Title of the page (visualized by 'ArticleTitle.tsx', 'LicenseInfo.tsx', and 'CitationGenerator.tsx'; converted into HTML 'title' tag by 'Head.tsx')
twitterCard: # Twitter card type for social media sharing
twitterCreator: # Twitter handle of the content creator
type: # Content type (e.g., Article, Writing, Scope)
url: # URL of the page (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')
uuid: # Unique identifier for the page
volume: # Volume number of the publication (visualized by 'CitationGenerator.tsx')

Frontmatter (Clean)

Feel free to copy and paste the following template into your new page.

abstract:
aiContribution:
  aiModel:
  aiRole:
  aiScope:
author:
authorURL:
bannerURI:
date:
degree:
department:
doi:
edition:
headDescription:
headIcon:
hideComments:
institution:
issue:
journal:
keywords:
language:
license:
ogSiteName:
ogType:
pages:
publish: true
publisher:
publisherLocation:
quartzShowBacklinks: true
quartzShowBanner:
quartzShowCitation: true
quartzShowExplorer: true
quartzShowFlex: true
quartzShowGraph: true
quartzSearch: true
quartzShowSubtitle: true
quartzShowTitle: true
quartzShowTOC: true
sponsor:
structuredData:
subtitle:
tags:
title:
twitterCard:
twitterCreator:
type:
url:
uuid:
volume:

Explorer

Backlinks