Does the method encoded within the representational cultural artefacts of an era indicate a way in which that broader cultural moment can be interpreted or understood ?
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Countering stupid ideas proves to be a matter of some subtlety and intelligence…
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Art without an Artist ?
Is AI-generated art an omen of things to come ? Are we writing ourselves out of our own story ?
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On Leadership
Organisational cultures are not born fully-formed (or in any sense static or complete), they are best cultivated and nurtured. For better or for worse, our leaders reflect the ground from which they grow…
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Will Technology make us Stupid ?
Will technology make us stupid ? Or is there more creative and innovative opportunity than ever before to be derived from our tools of cognitive extension ?
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A Paradox of Online Political Engagement
The endless stoking of the fires of difference might do little over a longer term to benefit the ideological and political voices and positions of liberalism and humanism.
You could be mistaken for believing that the primary public narratives and political engagements of our era are dominated by simpletons and misanthropes…
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Disassembling Global Order
We can’t have peace because we are unable to precisely and concisely define and sustain the conditions of assurance, continuity and coherence which could provide that peace within a contemporary, shared conceptual framework…
In the sphere of information replication and mass communication, those messages which most succinctly and concisely convey meaning tend to be those which are most successful in self-propagation, regardless of the relationship of those messages to truth or fact.
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On Personality
Personality or persona is the most concise form in which a reflexive attitude and interpretation (both from and) towards the world can be captured…
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Symbol Soup
We all find ourselves immersed in a phenomenal soup of information, symbols, narratives and languages of varying diversity, sophistication and complexity…
A good dose of humility is required to allow humanity sufficient and plausible opportunities to continue to exist. We are everywhere beset by distraction and psychological confusion as to our significance and purpose…
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