Sinosophy is Planetarity with Chinese Characteristics. It's philosophy as mood or atmosphere, the evocative yin to the engineering yang of Habitability.
How the word moved
I began it in Jan 2026 as The Monkey Goes East. In Aug 2026 I restarted it as Sinosophy, a monthly essay alternating with Habitability: an essay that engineers followed by an essay that evokes.
In my words
"Sinosophy: Planetarity with Chinese Characteristics."
from Sinosophy, 10 Aug 2026
"I’m suspicious of my urge to invent patterns, because the moment I do, I’ve turned a mood into a system"
from Sinosophy, 10 Aug 2026
"An essay that engineers followed by an essay that evokes."
from Sinosophy, 10 Aug 2026
Related
- Inherited from Wilfrid Sellars - I set it against Sellars' positive conception.
- Contradicts Pattern Language for Habitability - Sinosophy evokes and refuses to make patterns.
- Related Habitability - Habitability is its counterpart.
- Related Production Stack - China is an essential key to planetarity.
- Related Planetary Alterity - the Monkey knows the planet is on loan.
Still open
I don't know whether this atmosphere is believable.