It may not always be obvious but the uncertainties, ambiguities and outright inconsistencies that inhabit our forms of communication are as important as any intention or purposive orientation.
The constellations of intent and wilful self-determination that inhabit and haunt our systems of communication tend to generate as much diffusion and confusion as they do coherent meaning and sustainable comprehension.
There is a reason for this: the production of unmanaged complexity provides a goal of meaning-making and identity to systems of (technology and) communication. We find ourselves existing in free fall and orbit around a fantasy of communication and control because the aspirationally reflexive meaning-making of self and culture never seeks full closure and resolution.
To solve the problem if self and other or of system and environment would be to invalidate the mezzanine spaces in which possibility and life occur. The difference and distance between ourselves and our variously acquired or invented goals acquires all the character of a reproductive paradox.
To understandbis to erase the mind or the civilisation that understands. In some ways, it becomes better for us that indeterminacy and uncertainty are intrinsic and irreducible in the world.
We will always have more to understand or try to resolve because this game of life and existence is one in which uncertainty and entropy were in ay long before humanity and our transient incentives and motivations arrived.
Daedelus Kite 