The arc and trajectory of (a) psychosis resonates. An obsessive assertion of and fixation upon deterministic identities and roles both depends upon and further exacerbates the insecurities that drive this whole system. Control, once asserted, almost always and agnostic of context invokes a signal and downstream cascade of entropic consequences that are then further refined, […]
Relativistic spatio-temporal curvature and variable time dilation may be a key component in system formation, dependency and self-sustainment. The variable is a property of system clocks, themselves defined by the measure (or bandwidth) of complexity and entropy within which they find themselves entangled. Reciprocal functions map one system internal states to its environment and to […]
We are the mockingbirds, compulsively copying the copies and idiomatic machinery of our shared times and places, of our competitive or collaborative systems of belief. We don’t copy things, we reflexively copy their encoding mechanisms. Each and every coding error breeds further evolutionary metamorphosis. This indicates our critical dependency upon, and endless invocation of, productive […]
A torus floating against a dark background. This torus is its own negative space. It is a singularly continuous topological surface that is unbroken but that also contains at its core an absence, a discontinuity and a recursive entanglement. The identity theorem (here) is that logical incompleteness precisely is the presence of an unbounded and […]
Being clever is not always about being correct, but being optimistic might in some (or many) instances be the greatest self-deception of all. Systems of largely unsubstantiated belief, as our private and shared worlds tend to be, generate a threshold level of expansive uncertainty and referential or relational (i.e. semantic) undecidability. This then invokes and […]
Semantics is a fascinating mystery that is haunted by, yet enigmatically accelerates towards, a vacuum composed of the circularly generative absence of its own semantic closure. (It becomes a complex, hollow and counter-intuitively meaningless tautology.) “Language” is itself simply another word, hollow and haunted by an underlying relational semantics that forever displaces meaning, identity and […]
We rarely pause for thought to consider that all of this accelerating sociotechnical speciation and generative utility precisely is the drift through combinatorial complexity into states of maximum entropy. It remains as something of a collective (perhaps collaborative) blindspot that organisational order is profoundly dependent upon unrecoverable loss and stochastic uncertainty. The same observation applies […]
Assuring democratic continuity may be problematised by the presence of this particular political personality in ways that (perhaps necessarily) distract us from tackling underlying causal factors. If it wasn’t this problematic character, it would be someone else and regardless of how this situation plays out; what are the large-scale causal dynamics here? Is the demagogic […]
I wonder if a reflex to identify the where and the how of consciousness might not necessarily, if inadvertently, render the what inaccessibly unintelligible. Distributed (as emergent) system properties inhabit their transmission media in a counter-intuitive way. Yes – where, how and what are all different perspectives on the same abstract conceptual entity but the […]
A significant problem percolates through all this melting ice: the decomposable modularity of our languages, technologies and organisational systems remains functionally unable to comprehensively or sustainably address the complexity or scale of this issue. Subsequently, we find ourselves inhabiting and endlessly replicating media tropes of hollow platitudes and inherited generalisations that are simply not sophisticated […]
Mnemosyne’s gift is a curse. Those who do not remember the past may be forever condemned to repeat it but those who cannot forget the past will suffer an even more difficult fate. Not all memories are positive.
Technologically-mediated communication is creating the global epidemic of loneliness. Alienation and emptiness is a signal amplified by our ubiquitous and omnipresent sense and experience of contemporary connectivity, an inward-turning inflection of systemic extensibility for which we are quite poorly prepared by the majority of our evolutionary history. Kindness fades in these moments as everyone struggles […]
Daedelus Kite 