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Modern Wizardry

VIMembership

Join the founding community

This is not a product. There is no course, no certification and no tier that unlocks the good material. Membership means joining a small group of people trying to work out whether this is worth building, and helping decide what it becomes.

Payment is not live on this site. Both routes below currently lead to the same interest form. No card details are collected anywhere, and the price shown is indicative while we work out what running this actually costs.

Observer

FreeNo card, no expiry

For people following the project. You will hear what happens, and you can stop hearing it at any point with one click.

  • Occasional letters — new writing, and honest progress reports
  • Early notice of anything that turns into an actual event
  • An open invitation to send arguments, corrections and suggestions
Register as an Observer

Member

£36per year — indicative, not yet payable

For people who want to help shape the discipline while it is still soft enough to shape: its language, its principles and whatever it becomes.

  • Everything an Observer gets
  • A voice in how the framework and its principles develop
  • Access to members’ discussions as and when they exist
  • Priority for places at talks, workshops and field visits
  • Recorded as a Founding Member of the first cohort
Register interest as a Member

Payment is not live. Registering now records your interest and takes no money; nobody will be charged until membership genuinely exists, and not without asking first.

Founding members

A description of when you arrived, not a limited edition.

Everyone who joins during this first period is recorded as a Founding Member. There is no cap, no countdown and no artificial scarcity, because a movement that opens with a fake deadline has told you something about itself before you have read a word.

It means what it says: you were here while the thing was still being decided, and your arguments about the principles, the domains and the language carry proportionate weight. That is the whole benefit, and it is a real one.

Where the money would go

Stated in advance, before there is any.

  • Hosting, domains and the boring infrastructure of existing on the internet
  • Room hire and travel costs for talks, workshops and field visits
  • Community tools that are not owned by an advertising company
  • Administration, so that this does not quietly become one person’s unpaid second job

If subscriptions ever exceed what those things cost, the surplus goes into bursaries for people who want to attend something and cannot pay for it.

Reasonable questions.

What do I get today?
Honestly: writing, correspondence, and a place on a list of people who are interested. Everything else is described here as a possibility rather than a promise, because it is one.
Why charge at all, eventually?
Because the alternatives are advertising, sponsorship or one person absorbing the cost until they lose interest. A small subscription is the least compromising of the three.
What if I cannot pay?
Then be an Observer, or write and say so. Nothing intellectual here will ever sit behind the paywall — the writing, the domains and the principles stay open to everyone.
Can I leave?
At any time, with no conversation required. Every letter carries an unsubscribe link that works.
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