AION is the first book of the copyleft series entitled IUS POS BELLUM (justice after war), Composed/Compiled by Todd Michael Huber Davidson. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s "Arcades Project", Apocryphal texts, and Carl Jung’s 1951 book of the same title, AION is a dialogue on the identity of past, present and future, within cosmology. A monolithic 1066 page historical montage of philosophy, scientific theory, poetry, myth and symbolism, art and culture, this book is "a bizarre, intriguing, and edifying work that wanders boldly through a terrain that is equal parts zine, reference book, manifesto, textbook, prayer, and experimental poem" that deals with the subjects of Semiotics, Time, The Cosmos, Being and Becoming.

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  • BOOK I: AION

    IUS POS BELLUM Index [04]
    You are Here [06]
    PROLOGUE: Author’s Note [09]
    The Myth Before History [18]

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  • PROEM I: COSMOLOGY

    *GLOSSARY A,
    Discipines & Paradigms [33]
    Artography [36]
    Separation [52]
    Models & Metaphors [62]
    Henosis [78]
    Definition [82]
    Of Pure Becoming [89]
    Rigor [101]
    Fables & Allegories [109]
    Utopia [120]
    Block Chain [128]

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  • PROEM II: CHRONOLOGY

    Clock Chain [135]
    Dust & Ashes [145]
    Apocalyptists [147]
    The Festival [152]
    Utopia or Oblivion [171]
    Haunts & Consequences [209]
    Emperors & Events [224]
    Posterity [226]
    To Tame Time [233]
    Death of the Author [241]
    Entanglement [243]
    Humanity version 2.0 [257]
    Symbolization [258]
    Illusion of the Epoch [291]
    The Now [301]
    The Indicatrix [306]
    The Hours [313]
    Tetrascroll [319]
    Chalice & Blade [326]
    Year One [331]
    Before Class [342]
    Machines of Loving Grace [373]
    Technological Integration [384]
    Resilience & Regime Shifts [397]
    Genesis version 2.0 [401]
    Augmented Reality [413]

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  • PROEM III: FROG & TOAD

    Basilisk [421]
    Snakes & Serpents [430]
    Satan, Squat Like Toad [433]
    Toads & Plague [457]
    Myth & Reality [477]

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  • PROEM IV: COMET & ECLIPSE

    *GLOSSARY B,
    Myth & Language [496]
    Solar Omens [497]
    Monster & Message [506]
    Twelve Caesars [518]
    Birth of A Christ [526]
    Spiritual Cramp [558]
    Universal Law [564]
    Monster & Messiah [569]
    Property & Commons [573]

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  • PROEM V: HORSE & PLAGUE

    Plague, The Name [576]
    Mare of Diomedes [579]
    The Story of Phaethon [582]
    The Pale Horse [588]
    The Veil & Its Symbols [631]
    Dogmas,
    Hypotheses, & Fictions [641]
    Object, Subject, Conject [650]

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  • PROEM VI: ONTOLOGY

    Forms of Life [660]
    The Cave [666]
    Parmenides [683]
    American Prologue [694]
    Exchange &
    Control Mechanisms [698]
    Ethics [714]
    The Worlds is Gone [716]
    The Coming Storm [720]

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  • PROEM VII: HISTORY

    Uniformity [735]
    Machiavelli [740]
    The Survival of Records [747]
    Translation [762]
    Egology [774]
    In the Light of the Sun [779]
    Proof & Knowledge [786]
    Truth & Beauty [787]
    Truth & Falsehood [789]
    The Sorting Daemon [801]
    Classification & Projection [811]
    Reversal [831]
    Deep Time [842]
    Iron Empires [857]
    The Openings of the Books [873]
    The Opening of the Mouth [874]
    Men Without Chests [876]
    Progress Rituals [884]
    Extrapolation [902]
    Wyndham’s Rule [905]
    Bendix [926]
    Use & Abuse [935]
    Vico [950]
    Silencing the Past [978]
    Before State [998]
    Distortions [1001]
    Between Past & Future [1005]
    Fecundity [1019]
    History as Weapon [1020]
    Symmetry & Sense [1032]
    Representation & Reality [1042]

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  • SOURCES & DEDICATIONS

    Sources (Bibliography) [1056]
    Dedications [1064]

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