Everything Means

Nine Approximations of Enough

Published by Iff Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

LIST PRICE $26.95

PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER

Free shipping when you spend $40. Terms apply.

Buy from Other Retailers

About the Book

A structurally daring book that turns itself, and our assumptions, upside down to reveal the hidden laws behind meaning’s rise, fall, and return.

A unique tête-bêche edition with two distinct entry points into a single work. Featuring divergent styles while sharing a common thread, each side leads the reader toward one conceptual core—a meticulously structured philosophical Möbius strip.

Begin with "Nine Approximations of Enough," a poetic cosmology on how meaning emerges through resonance and recursion. Or flip the book and read "Deep Content: The Meaning Industrial Complex," an incisive cultural critique tracing how meaning decays under the pressures of contemporary symbolic life.

Surrounding the book's central "flip point" and accessible from either side lies a daring framework, "The Symbolic Sciences", a unifying proto-science that proposes underlying laws for meaning's behaviour.

Accessible in style yet radical in scope, Everything Means entangles disparate disciplines and concepts through novel connections, making even its most audacious claims feel inevitable. It invites readers into a philosophical cosmology grounded in the familiar while offering a framework expansive enough to resonate across boundaries.

A book to enter from either side, enacting its own thesis: everything connects, and therefore, everything means.

About the Author

Walter Scharold is a composer, inventor, systems designer, and multidisciplinary creator working across music, interactive media, broadcasting, and philosophy. Founder of acclaimed ensemble miRthkon, he has contributed to more than 300 commercial titles, designed patented gaming systems, hosted the experimental podcast Fine Just Fine, and authored Everything Means.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Iff Books (August 3, 2027)
  • Length: 336 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781806951338

Browse Related Books

Resources and Downloads

High Resolution Images

BACK TO TOP