Books
The Monographs
The Prior Grammar
Two essays on the mind before language arrives. The Godhead Position examines the anatomy of moral sight: why observing another's conduct places us somewhere we did not choose to stand. The Superimposition follows Hitchcock and Sophocles into the held state in which two incompatible realities remain fully alive in a single mind.
Plastic Symbolism
Twelve chapters. The book recovers the operation Freud named plastische Wortdarstellung and restores priority to Herbert Silberer. It demonstrates the conversion of meaning into bodily material across trauma, ideology, art, and the sacred.
It began as an essay of the same name, on the Substack.
The Dictionaries
Vocabula Barnesiana
A Dictionary of Coined and Rare English
A dictionary in two halves. The first is 673 words built from Latin and Greek for meanings English has no word for. The second is 1,262 English words that fell out of use, with their sources and, where one exists, the date of the earliest known use. 1,935 entries, 747 of them carrying a quotation from a named author.
For Children
Epictetus for Kids. An illustrated introduction to the Stoic: a boy whose name meant Bought, a leg, an order from the emperor, and a clay lamp. Complete and free on the Substack, beginning with chapters one and two. A collected edition is forthcoming.
Signed Copies
The author signs and ships a limited number of copies himself. The store opens soon; subscribers hear first.