The various cultural contexts, parameters and metrics indicating that possibility for the existence of the sensible, the rational and the sane are also those shared borders of distance and difference defining the improbable, the implausible and the ridiculous…
Category: culture
Successful perception-manipulation through information-mediated reinforcement requires an intuitive comprehension and insight into a cultural, historical “moment”…
The bundled aggregation and recorded sedimentation of information within, between and around individuals is not simply a symptom of an accelerating information and technological communications culture – it precisely and constitutively is that culture…
Dreams without Meaning
Should we be afraid that to discover that there is no intrinsic meaning to our dreams is also to unfurl some great banner of revelatory catharsis pronouncing our own essential non-existence ?
Social Media: Insouciance or Anxiety ?
…why farm people’s identities when they quite happily, enthusiastically, farm themselves for you…
Some days are like vampires…
Tattoos are personal inscriptions and records of presence or potential no less than every other thing we experience and express…
Leonardo’s Kickflip
It is only a skateboard with a stenciled Last Supper and like this reference is only pretending to be something indirectly other than what it simply is…
Swimming Upstream
Swimming upstream…
Mischievous Mythology
The central fictional narrative theme is that of equal opportunity for all…
Smart Cities ?
Cities which possess, or indeed – cultivate, an intrinsic and emergent self-organisational homeostasis are not as psychologically alluring to the common-or-garden-variety metropolitan administrator as is the fantasy and mythology of control implicit to digital technology…
Transformative Problem-Solving
Organisational transformation is not so much about working within the existing rules as it may be about reconfiguring and extending the underlying axioms and rules of organisational structure, information and energy flow such as to generate new rules and new possibilities of organisational structure and system.