About Of Orders and Orbits
Of Orders and Orbits is a newsletter about how power survives its own destruction.
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Revolutions burn. Regimes collapse. Movements devour themselves. And yet - somehow - order always returns.
Not in the same form, not with the same slogans, but with the same gravitational pull: toward consolidation, toward control, toward a new structure that looks suspiciously like the old one.
This newsletter tracks that arc.
Written under the name Fouché, I explore the aftermaths of revolutions, the quiet violence of reaction, and the invisible systems that reassert control - whether in states, platforms, currencies, or code.
I’m not a historian or academic. My background is in politics, systems, data, product. But I’ve spent years studying what happens after the rupture - how coups solidify into policy, how radical platforms become surveillance empirees, how idealists are replaced by bureacrats and managers.
This is not a revolutionary newsletter. It is a Thermidorian one.
Each week, I’ll publish essays that connect:
Historical case studies (Iran 1953, Chile 1973, France 1794)
Modern backlash cycles (crypto to CBDCs, open-source AI to closed labs)
Power mechanics (surveillance, institutional drift, narrative control)
We live in the moment after disruption.
This newsletter is for those who want to understand what governs us now - not in slogans, but in systems.
