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cybernetics

communication theory: local convergence and the generative attractor

Communication converges locally while preserving uncertainty globally. Temporary centres stabilise meaning, a wider field remains generative rather than resolved.

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Psychology

immaturity: why adults never really grow up

Psychological maturity does not replace immaturity. It incorporates it, organises it, and learns how to live through it.

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cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

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cybernetics

the profitable persistence of a broken world

The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.

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Philosophy

consciousness and the human world

Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.

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politics

political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person

Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.

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Philosophy

why identity is not as simple as A = A

A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.

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cybernetics

ai, money and the economics of sameness

When everyone uses the same intelligence to compete for the same opportunities, intelligence ceases to be the advantage. Competition becomes the system’s principal output.

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cybernetics

cockroach party

Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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writing

how to write with an LLM (without losing your voice)

The apparent speed of generation can obscure how much judgement, rejection and restructuring the process still requires. The labour has not disappeared; it has shifted.

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Philosophy

how wealthy sponsors reshape populist politics

A movement founded on representing those with the least power increasingly depends upon support from those with the most.