Art & Synergetics · Paper · 2026

The Golden Compass and the Lunar Flux: William Blake, Bimetallic Meta-stability, and the Architecture of Value

Daniel Ari Friedman

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This manuscript overlays the history of British and American bimetallism with the mythopoetic architecture of William Blake’s prophetic corpus, reading the disintegration of the gold–silver standard as a material enactment of the catastrophic cosmological fracture Blake dramatized. We trace this trajectory from the Newtonian golden compass of rigid, atomistic metrology, identifying the 1717 Mint...

William BlakeBimetallismActive InferenceNewtonGresham's LawHamiltonWilliam Jennings BryanValueEconomic HistoryProphetic Economics

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  • A manuscript overlaying British and American bimetallism with William Blake's mythopoetic architecture, reading economic history through the lens of active inference and prophetic economics.
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  • Visual and symbolic analysis
  • Cross-domain pattern mapping

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2026. The Golden Compass and the Lunar Flux: William Blake, Bimetallic Meta-stability, and the Architecture of Value. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19335195. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19335195.

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