Ideology is what happens when a way of seeing the world becomes part of the world itself, shaping not only what we believe, but what becomes easier to believe next.
Category: cybernetics
A home is not simply somewhere a person lives. It is somewhere from which a life can continue.
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AI: When the Bubble Bursts
AI is being embedded into society’s infrastructure and security while the companies, funding and support structures required to maintain it remain commercially, operationally and strategically fragile.
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
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