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Desire Literacy Foundations
For Technologists
& Systems Thinkers
Building the new era for emergence not extraction.
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The Desire Literacy Foundations Program
This program is a solid introduction to the three pillars and core concepts that make up the deVinery Method. This intake is adapted specifically for technologists, AI developers and systems thinkers.
Why this work sits upstream of systems thinking (and why that matters)
Most people don’t realise that some ideas do not add content. They change the conditions under which content can exist.
Literacy was one of those ideas. Literacy did not add better stories. It changed how memory, authority, time, law, and identity could function at all. Entire civilizations reorganised around it.
Calculus was another.
Calculus did not add new numbers. It made motion, change, and infinity tractable. Physics, engineering, economics, and modern science became possible because the lens itself changed.
Systems thinking was another.
Systems thinking did not replace disciplines like economics, psychology, ecology, or medicine. It reorganised how causality could be perceived. Instead of isolating parts, we could see feedback loops, emergence, unintended consequences, and structural causes. Once that lens exists, every downstream field behaves differently inside it.
This is the category my work belongs to. It is not a new discipline or competing theory. It is a metasystem of systems.
Systems thinking shows how systems behave. This work shows how systems are generated in the first place.
Before there is a system, there is desire.
Before feedback loops, there is paradox.
Before structure, there is meaning-making under tension.
All systems are relational systems. Even technical ones. Even AI. Even markets. Even bureaucracies. The moment there is coordination, constraint, value, or coherence, relationship is already present.
What I am proposing is a new first principle for working with that reality.
At the ontological layer sits Cosmoerotic Genesis, a desire-genic first principle. Desire not as appetite or preference, but as the generative force through which form, relation, and coherence arise at all. This is paired with what I call the Storyverse Ethos, which allows systems to be built from inside lived meaning rather than imposed from outside.
From that foundation, three things become visible everywhere:
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The Three Paradoxes of Desire
These are the irreducible tensions that any person, relationship, culture, or system must navigate in order to exist without collapsing. They are not moral problems. They are structural.
2. The Three Flips: Seeing a pattern is not enough. The Three Flips describe how systems and people actually move from unconscious enactment, to resistance, to genuine emergence. This is the difference between recognising a problem and being able to shift it on purpose.
3. Desire Signatures
Desire Signatures are the map. They describe the consistent pattern by which a person or system navigates those paradoxes, including the specific fear of what would happen if desire were actually followed, and how they create an antidote to that fear. This makes Desire Signatures readable, mappable, and predictive across domains.
Together, this becomes an operational phenomenology, not a belief system. It can be taught, practised, tested, and applied. I first discovered it in the unlikeliest of places where no one else thought to look. I discovered it by decoding sexual fantasies because sexuality exposes desire with unusual precognitive clarity. But the same mapping works in politics, organisations, AI guardrails, culture, and personal lives because the underlying structure is the same.
This is why disagreements about this work often miss the point. They tend to respond from inside existing systems, arguing about downstream effects, while this work is pointing at the upstream engine that determines which systems can exist at all.
Far from arguing against science or systems thinking, I am relocating them to their correct layer. When you move upstream, you do not destroy what comes later. You make it more coherent.
That is the scope of what becomes possible if this is right.
Week 1: The Storyverse Ethos: The deVinery Desire-genic First Principle and perception shift that (if I am right) makes operational phenomenology possible without collapsing multiplicity into One True Wayism.(A world first).
This week introduces a new foundation to build from and navigate with. Not a 'truth' that requires scepticism or belief, but a deliberate posture for perceiving and building systems and personal lives. One big enough to hold the rigor of science and the validity of the mythopoetic. You will be introduced to a proposed operational phenomenology that preserves the parts of humanity that cannot be measured inside scientific first principles. You know, the things that make life actually worth living. Love, consciousness as qualia (what it is like), desire, meaning, purpose, symbolic truth, relational reality, ethics and the fact that, something like 70-80% of the world still identifies as having some form of spirituality.
Whatever your doorway was, you know if you know. You've felt the awe and wonder that cannot be measured, and you are tired of separating your LinkedIn profile and your funding avenue from your life-changing ayahuasca experience, your profound prayer experience, or your world-shattering orgasm. We cannot build lives or systems that resonate and function with the reality of being human from a first principle that denies what humans already are. So here is a new way forward that allows us to build more coherently, not less.
Week 2: The Three Paradoxes Inherent to Desire: Root syntax and grammar of desire shaping all human and tech systems from personal to planetary.
This week introduces the triangulation of three paradoxes that exist because desire exists. They create tensions we constantly navigate and cannot escape. Given that desire is the motivating force and paradoxical pressure cooker behind literally everything we build or do, it gives us a Rosetta Stone for unlocking it.
I show how these same three paradox forces are the unavoidable pressures shaping every relational system, revealing the operating system of desire itself. And the exciting thing is, I may have found a way to make this claim falsifiable.
I originally discovered these paradoxes by decoding the rawest access we have to undiluted, precognitive desire, our sexual fantasies. Through thousands of embodied test cases in my former role as a sex worker, I was able to decode the engine underneath our sexual fantasies and develop a system to create sexual experiences from that same foundational architecture. The results were predictable, consistent and profoundly positive. I developed a repeatable, teachable method. Given that my sex work venue was called "The deVinery", I simply dubbed it The deVinery Method.
I then zoomed out and realised the same engine was operating everywhere desire existed, not just in the sexual arena. It is visible in law, lying, ethics, economy, psychology, in why and how we build ontologies, in technology, and, most certainly, in how AI operates. I realised that the deVinery Method can be adapted to these arenas too. So far, it appears to work from bedroom to boardroom, from technology to religion. This thing is planetary wide and may apply to ecosystems too.
Just like how grammar is the meta-structure beneath all specific languages. Each language has its own rules (domain specific), but grammar is the universal pattern that shows up in how any language works.
The goal of this week is to introduce you to this triangulation of paradoxes that unlocks the Rosetta Stone.
Week 3: The Three Flips: Navigation stages determining generative or degenerative outcomes.
It is not enough to just see how the existence of the triangulated paradox, you have to know how to navigate it. Paradox is not something to solve. It is something to move with.
This week introduces the Three Flips as a practical way to navigate paradox without collapse. Learn how people, cultures, technologies, and institutions get stuck in first- or second-flip states and how emergence only becomes possible in the third flip.
The three flips move beyond dialectics and harmonised polarity.
This is the part that shifts it from a diagnostic tool to something you do something with. Again, I didn't just learn from the content of sexual fantasies; I learned from how they move a person's consciousness from one state to another. I learned from the complex process of "bringing a fantasy to life" what would end in generative outcomes and what would be degenerative.
Again, if we zoom out, we see the same pattern across scales in the non-sexual arenas too.
Week 4: Desire Signatures: Recognisable, repeatable paradox navigation pattern of selves and systems.
This week pulls together how all the previous material can be used to map desire signatures, turning them into readable prediction, and design tools for everything from sex to AI governance and law.
I have not yet built systems from this, but I recognise the potential.
Every 'self', be it a person, a corporation, or a culture, has a recognisable desire signature. You can recognise the desire signature in expressions of it, like the laws they build, the ethics they champion and the power structures. What is possible to build with technology is shaped by these same signatures, and the operation of that tech becomes an expression of it.
(Optional) Week 5: deVinery Salon: Gather with other intelligent people who want to build for emergenece not extraction, to explore how the deVinery method might apply across scales. This is where we discuss what we learned, refine it, hear how others are applying it, and imagine what we could build with it. This is an idea playground and a place to form collaborations with others who want to license The deVinery Method.
What this makes possible
If I am right, that means we can predict and design for emergence before versus collapse across humans, institutions, and AI, before the system pays the price. Here's a handful of potential uses for desire signatures including:
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Predict collapse before it happens: spot the signature that reliably produces backlash, scapegoating, brittle compliance, or shadow outcomes. Not “the model might do something bad” vibes. More like:
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This system is structurally heading toward scapegoating, crackdown, or perverse incentives.
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This product will reliably produce addiction, polarization, harassment, corruption, or brittle compliance.
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This governance design will backfire because the signature demands a shadow outlet.
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Design interventions that don’t backfire: change the paradox-structure so the system can metabolise tension instead of generating monsters underground. Right now, interventions often “solve” the surface and intensify the underground. If signatures are real across scales, you can potentially use them to:
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change which triangulated paradox corner that gets suppressed (and therefore what shadow gets generated),
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build pressure-release valves that prevent degenerate outlets,
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design containers that let systems metabolize paradox instead of pretending it isn’t there.
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That’s not “ethics guidelines.” That’s architecting the conditions of coherence.
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Build AI safety without amputating relationality: redesign guardrails so “safety vs aliveness” stops being the only tradeoff on the menu. This is the one that should make AI builders blink because desire signatures together with navigation skills imply that:
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the current safety-vs-relationality tradeoff is not inevitable,
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the guardrail regime has its own desire signature,
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and you can redesign the guardrails so they do not create the very pathology they’re trying to prevent.
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Legitimises the Sex Tech Field: And of course, if you are in sex tech, this means you can reliably read each person's unique desire signature, and design for it. When you can finally understand what turns us on and why, you can:
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Activate and satisfy the sexual excitement of individual users while dramatically reducing the likelihood of harm.
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Finally explain why sex is exciting, separating degenerative behaviour from generative taboo play.
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Obtain evidence to advocate for laws, ethics, and policies that stop trying to chain the wrong monsters and threaten your business. Adults finally, really do get to be adults.
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While actually building from the deVinery desire-genic first principle and mastering deVinery Desire Signatures will take further training and licensing agreements, this foundation level is designed to give you a real understanding of the core concepts. By the end, you will not only have a perception shift and a new lens, but you will beable to experience this shift in your own life. This is enough to know whether this work aligns with you.
What This Is For
This work is for people who are:
• Building AI, platforms, or technologies that will shape human futures
• Designing systems intended to be relational, ethical, or emergent
• Already exploring beyond scientific materialism without abandoning rigour
• Aware that intelligence deserves a seat at the table, even before we know what it is
• Seeking coherence rather than control
• Choose emergence over extraction.
• Willing to build from first principles rather than patching failures downstream
You do not need to agree with any metaphysical claims.
You do not need to adopt an ideology.
You need curiosity, precision, and a willingness to look at what is actually shaping your systems.
What This Is Really About
This is not a course that gives you tools to optimise a system. It is a perceptual shift.
If you are here, you already know that the systems we are living inside are breaking. You also know that simply adding better governance, better incentives, or better code does not solve the deeper problem.
This is the foundational operating system for working with desire as the primary structuring force of all systems. Human systems. Technological systems. Relational systems. Cultural systems.
Once you see those pressures clearly, you cannot unsee them.
And that changes how you design, build, relate, and decide.
This is the foundation.
What You Will Be Doing
This is a live, participatory program. The format of the learning process mirrors the principles themselves. That means you cannot learn from intellect alone, but must enter the experience. This is achieved through a weaving of intelligent, mythopoetic, and embodied exercises. You are learning to perceive differently, alongside others who are also trying to build a new era rather than patch the old one.
You will need to let go of expectations of how systems are normally discussed amongst corporate peers and academic processes. You will have to take off your armour, usually used to protect you from the chin-jutted logic-warriors, and actually feel the process run through body, consciousness and life.
If this feels too vulnerable to do in public, you can apply for private learning, but given how few people I can offer that to, the price goes up accordingly. On the plus side, private learning means you get a lot more personalisation in helping you identify misunderstandings and access the full potential of how this could apply in your specific circumstances. You can express interest by contacting me here.
What This Is Not
This is not:
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a certification
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a productivity framework
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a quick download of intellectual property
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a promise that you will leave ready to build products or systems using this methodology
This is the foundation.
If you want to go further, there are deeper programs, dojos, and licensing pathways available later.
If your attitude is "prove it to me" and "where's your data set?" you are in the wrong place. This work is not about proving itself inside existing systems of validity. It is about experientially giving you the perception shift capable of building new forms of validity and inviting you to be part of a group of high-level thinkers exploring the same terrain. It outlines the operating system of desire itself and gives you the structural foundations that make later application, proofing and building possible. It gives you the coherence architecture required to build without collapsing reality into one worldview.
What You Will Leave With
By the end, you will not leave with a formula.
You will leave with:
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a new way of perceiving systems
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language for things you already sense but could not previously articulate
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increased coherence between your values, your work, and your decisions
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a felt understanding of why emergence requires paradox resilience
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connection with others who are also building toward a post-extractive future
This work integrates. It does not stay theoretical. It will affect how you think, work, relate, and imagine what is possible.
Integrity and Use
This program is offered generously, in the spirit of Project Dandelion.
By participating, you agree that what you learn here is for personal understanding and integration.
If you later wish to build, teach, or commercialise work that explicitly uses these frameworks, you agree to do so through an appropriate licensing relationship, so that the integrity of the work and the ecosystem it supports can be maintained.
Format and Price
Desire Literacy Foundations is a live, interactive offering. The exact format may vary depending on the group, location, or context. It may take the form of an online intensive, an in-person immersion, or a hybrid structure.
Details, dates, and pricing are announced per cohort. You can find them where the dates are listed for the particular event you wish to attend. Check the invite email or the top of the page for upcoming programs.
Can't find one that suits you? You can request that I run one for your community by contacting me directly.
Check the format and price point of each offering where the dates are listed.
T&Cs, Refund Policy and Codes of Behaviour
You choose what feels right for you.
This is a non-refundable, final purchase, so please ensure you carefully consider the terms and conditions for participation and check if this course is suitable for you.
How to sign up
Attendance is by application to protect the integrity of the learning space.