Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred?
Category: culture
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
There are no “Creative Types”
We are all, each and every one of us, “creative types”.
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.
To brain or not to brain, that is the question…
Consciousness: Beyond Opposites
Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.
Utopian Entropy
Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.
The Hollow Men
One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…
Gothic Beauty
The enigmas of human psychology and culture are writ large in the domain of Gothic fascination with darkness and death.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
Facebook has a genocide problem.