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The “Seven Pieces of Iran” Map as Geopolitical Myth: A Structural Critique

Posted on March 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines and critiques the “seven pieces of Iran” cartographic scenario — a recurring geopolitical proposition that imagines the fragmentation of the Iranian state into a series of ethnically defined successor states corresponding to its major peripheral communities … Continue reading →

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Comparative Appendix: Situating the Nathanish Assemblage Historically

Posted on February 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Appendix D Journal of Late Institutional Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 Supplementary Material to the Special Issue on the Nathanish Assemblage Editorial note: This appendix was prepared at the request of the special issue editors to accompany the three primary … Continue reading →

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Quiet Structures: How One Culture Chose Understanding Over Rule

Posted on February 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Special Exhibition Catalog Essay Museum of Post-Institutional History Permanent Collection Supplement, Gallery 7 A note on this catalog: The following essay was commissioned to accompany the special exhibition “Quiet Structures,” which brings together facsimile reproductions, archival displays, and interpretive materials … Continue reading →

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Maintenance Is Not Failure: A Response to “Text Without Power”

Posted on February 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Author’s Reply Journal of Late Institutional Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 Response to Critical Notes Scholars who work on marginal, anti-prestige, or deliberately quiet intellectual cultures should not be surprised when their arguments are received with skepticism by reviewers trained … Continue reading →

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Text Without Power: Reassessing the Alleged Coherence of the Nathanish Assemblage

Posted on February 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Critical Notes Journal of Late Institutional Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2 Submitted for the Critical Notes Section The article under review, “The Nathanish Assemblage: Coherence, Restraint, and the Anti-Prestige Intellectual Culture,” makes an ambitious and, at points, genuinely interesting case … Continue reading →

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The Nathanish Assemblage: A High-Density Textual Maintenance Culture in the Late Institutional Period

Posted on February 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Journal of Comparative Archaeology and Institutional EcologyVol. 87, No. 3 (Speculative Reconstruction Section) Author: Dr. M. I. KeraunosAffiliation: Institute for Post-Collapse Studies Abstract This article presents a synthetic reconstruction of the so-called Nathanish Assemblage, a distinctive material–textual culture identified across … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Alteration

Posted on December 17, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Alteration, by Kinglsey Amis It took me a while to get the point of this book.  At least as I read it, there are more than one way to take the title of this book, and the first of … Continue reading →

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Lest Darkness Fall

Posted on May 10, 2014 by nathanalbright

One of the most important works of counterfactual history, an area I have a great deal of interest in as both a student of history and literature, is a book called Lest Darkness Fall, a book which is on my … Continue reading →

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Would An Independent Greenland Be Welcome In NAFTA?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by nathanalbright

For now, Greenland is an autonomous island whose foreign affairs are handled by Denmark, its colonial power. A tiny population of 60,000 people, about 89% of whom are Inuit (Eskimo), lives mostly in a collection of small villages on the … Continue reading →

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New Blog: College Football Bracketology

Posted on November 7, 2011 by nathanalbright

Because I did not want to bog down this blog entry with a lot of college football commentary outside of my philosophical or moral interests, and because I enjoy the idea of a counterfactual history of a parallel universe where … Continue reading →

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