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R.B. Barnes
Philosopher and cosmologist
Author of The Prior Grammar and Plastic Symbolism, and architect of the Iron Mirror and Mother Electric cosmologies.
The men are safe.
The men are about to die.
Current Release
The Creation Myths: Book One, The Book of Resonance. Fourteen years in the making. Live now on Substack. Book Two, The Book of Ash, is forthcoming.
Plastic Symbolism: How the Mind Makes Meaning Material publishes the following week.
From the launch review
“A genuine masterwork... Where others mythologize freedom, Barnes anatomizes its inevitable betrayal.”
Philosophy Gate, July 14, 2026
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The Prior Grammar
Publishing July 2026Plastic Symbolism
Plastic Symbolism
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