{"id":2192,"date":"2026-04-07T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/?page_id=2192"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:26:57","slug":"axiome-des-avenirs-tome-1-preface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/auteur-science-fiction-et-mythologie\/axiome-des-avenirs-tome-1-preface\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiom of Futures Volume 1 Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2192\" class=\"elementor elementor-2192\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67677f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67677f1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preliminary note to the Corpus of Reconciliation<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Classification: Educational document \/ Extended internal use<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story is a <\/span><b>narrative reconstruction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of an operational file classified under the reference:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">XYLOS \u2013 Q-RI \/ UNDETERMINED WORLD \u2013 FILE R-EVA-01.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The facts have been simplified, some sequences reconstructed from partial co-recordings (neural logs, ship&#039;s logs, Concorde archives, Apostasy manifestos). The goal is not procedural fidelity. The goal is to make perceptible what the Risk-S matrices systematically lose: the way in which an abstract idea is imprinted on a body.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will see:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how <\/span><b>cosmic suffering budgets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> become numbers on a HUD, green or red lines on a holo board, then firing orders; ;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how the <\/span><b>catastrophe by precaution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can arise from a &quot;reasonable&quot; sterilization protocol, signed by people convinced they are doing the right thing; ;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how the <\/span><b>moral circle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> expands to include AI, biospheres, simulations, contingent futures \u2014 to the point of shaking the very idea of &quot;human&quot; as the central unit of value; ;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how the <\/span><b>instrumental suffering<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it creeps in wherever systems pursue legitimate ends with too much consistency.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The figure of Eva Rostova serves as a lens here.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is not heroized. She is not sanctified. She is observed in the most intimate way possible, in light of her constraints:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">neural pain after forced co-simulation, synaptic latency drifts under fungal intrusions, administrative pressure from sterilization protocols that she is supposed to trigger herself.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kael, Thorne, Xylos, Concord, Apostasy: all are honest\u2014or at least logical\u2014attempts to bear the burden of Risk-S. None of them wakes up in the morning with the conscious intention of creating hell. All of them contribute to it, as a consequence.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This text should not be read as a manifesto.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#039;s a <\/span><b>case study<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. An embodied data point.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reconciliation does not ask you to approve of Eva Rostova.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is only asking you to observe to the end what the refusal to choose between two different forms of preventing cosmic suffering costs on a global scale.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to author page Axiom of the Futures Volume 1 Preface Find Volume 1 of Axiom of the Futures on Amazon (click on \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2235,"parent":2180,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2192","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2192\/revisions\/2247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}