‘Why Do We Write in Post-History?’ is a PhD thesis divided into three parts:

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1. A critical component examining the articulation of the gesture of writing within human History. This component of the work will define History as a function of writing, where History is defined as a model advancing towards the ideal of absolute knowledge. The critical component will determine that, throughout History, the gesture of writing was an essential means by which humankind realised logical, progressive thinking that explicated the natural world, reducing reality to a complex array of objectified processes (observable, verifiable, analysable, predictable and manipulatable).​
    

2. A creative-critical component, composed of four experimental essays written under the series title 'Thus Spoke a Strange Computer', that explore writing and the production of information now, in Post-History. In line with the philosophy of Vilem Flusser, Post-History is characterised by a programmatic perspective that percieves reality as a system of functioning programmes, where inherent virtualities (possible situations) are realised by chance but as a matter of necessity. The creative component will explore (among other themes) inter-subjective consciousness shared between human and machine intelligences, obsolescence and information exchange in a telematic society. The four essays are structured within the framework of obsolete computer instruction manuals, and are written by a ‘strange computer’ (a human writer narrating within the systems of a telematic, digital culture).​
    

3. A reflective component exploring the creative decisions undertaken in part two of the thesis (though reflective discussion will be offered throughout the work as a whole). The reflective component will explore the creative process that led to the artefact of the thesis itself, examining how writing – as an articulation of human thinking – is distinguishable from the text generation of programmed apparatus, where assortments of data (words) are compiled through unintentional, programmatic ‘games’.