The Education of Alticcio: On Things That Rhyme
Frusciante, Aldébaran, and an Aesthetic Education
Studio Alticcio is a place that doesn't exist, producing essays about connections that shouldn't exist, maintained by someone who spent his adolescence trying to become interesting by accumulating references to elsewhere.
The name comes from La Horde du Contrevent—a wind that carries things across great distances. What began as cultural essays has grown into a small workshop for writing, tools, and eventually objects.
Based in Luxembourg.
Essays
Essays on what connects John Frusciante to Dante, Hermès to Schuiten, and the ghost of parchment haunting every .docx.
studio.alticc.ioPublished
Forthcoming
- The Ghost Page—Why every .docx performs pagination for paper that will never exist
- Interesting > Correct—On Tintin, tangram ties, and the locked wallpaper
Tools
phrax
Investor eligibility checker implementing the Sanctaphrax specification from The Tower. Formal verification of RAIF/AIFMD rules in OCaml and Catala.
phrax.alticc.io github.com/alticcio/phrax