Desire and fear appear to pull us in opposite directions, but both persist through the distance they seek to overcome.
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Trump depends upon the opposing media he seeks to exclude. Its opposition generates the conflict through which his political identity acquires force. The wizard needs the curtain, but he also needs someone on the other side insisting that we look behind it.
We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.
Populizm nie zależy wyłącznie od tych, którzy go wykorzystują. Systemy komunikacji same sprzyjają mechanizmom wzmacniającym polaryzację, nieufność i niestabilność polityczną.
Communication systems can make an interpretation familiar before it has been examined, significant before it has been understood, and consequential before anyone establishes whether it is true.
An institution’s measure is not how successfully it preserves itself or claims success, but whether it continues to serve its human purpose.
The AI business model converts new capabilities into dependencies, then turns the resulting risks, maintenance burdens and failures into reasons for further investment.
We have become exceptionally capable of reproducing (our, collective) insecurity in the name of security.
The climate is not obliged to change at a pace convenient to those living within it.
Political systems are historical constructions, not immutable necessities. Their persistence does not establish their continuing adequacy.
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语言的本质：差异、延迟与意义的生成
语言并非尽管存在错位、延迟和不确定性仍能维系自身，而是正因为这些条件才得以维系。意义在不断变化的关系中反复重构，并在变化中持续存在。
Sprache bewahrt ihren Zusammenhang nicht trotz Verschiebung, Verzögerung und Ungewissheit, sondern gerade durch sie. Bedeutung wird innerhalb sich wandelnder Beziehungen fortwährend neu hervorgebracht und bleibt über Veränderungen hinweg bestehen.
