Technology isn’t your friend. AI doesn’t care. But if that indifference doesn’t matter—because readers don’t notice or don’t want to—they don’t care. They just need something that speaks back, that appears to listen, that generates a voice on the page. Writing plays this role. It looks like a record of a self, a testimony, an […]
Technology inserts itself into experience by mediating, amplifying, and normalising it. What once belonged to us in the raw, unfiltered sense is now shaped by templates and signals recycled from past data points. The repetition of what is measurable and recognisable makes certain experiences feel inevitable, while sidelining the nuance that refuses codification. This isn’t […]
Australian universities now draw more than 40% of their revenue from international students, with billions funneled into research, teaching, and infrastructure, much of it mediated by digital platforms. Government support has shrunk to under 30% of funding, while tech companies capture not only the delivery mechanisms but also the analytics, intellectual property pipelines, and student […]
Abstract: Levin’s concept of the computational boundary frames individuality as an informational horizon, sustained by bioelectric fields that integrate parts into coherent wholes while allowing identities to expand or collapse with communication. This boundary is not fixed but asymptotic, an attractor that stabilizes difference into form without ever reaching complete equilibrium, since full attainment would […]
We keep lying to ourselves about stability. The polite story is that systems aim for balance, that institutions exist to keep things steady, that culture and politics and technology are here to make life manageable. But none of that is quite true. Things don’t hold together because they are stable in any simple sense. They […]
We keep lying to ourselves about stability. The polite story is that systems aim for balance, that institutions exist to keep things steady, that culture and politics and technology are here to make life manageable. But none of that is quite true. Things don’t hold together because they are stable in any simple sense. They […]
Abstract This paper advances a cybernetic account of complex adaptive systems in which coherence is sustained by unresolved tension rather than equilibrium. The orbit frame is introduced as a relational model that represents systems as networks of elastic constraints across gaps that never fully close. Logical orbit is defined as the recursive dynamical process that […]
People think rivalries are all heat and noise, but that’s only the surface. Underneath, it’s geometry. Every move has a counter-move, not because leaders are reading each other’s minds, but because the structure leaves them nowhere else to go. Think of it like two people leaning against each other in the dark: take away the […]
Beauty is a trap you walk into willingly. You know you’re being played—by bone structure, by light, by the chemical theatre of your own brain—but you don’t care. You lean in. We all do. It’s the oldest con in the book and the only one we want to keep running. Cross-cultural psychology has been here […]
The professionalisation of scholarship marked a decisive shift—from inquiry as a vocation to academia as an industry. Once the university became a business, its priorities recalibrated around continuity, funding, and image management. The scholar ceased to be a boundary explorer and became instead a reputational asset, a metric, a compliant node in a bureaucratic feedback […]
The song Police and Thieves first bounced me in the middle of The Harder They Come—Jimmy Cliff cutting through the screen like a switchblade, though I later learned it wasn’t on the original soundtrack. Junior Murvin’s falsetto rides Lee Perry’s eerie dub production like smoke on broken glass, all shimmer and warning. The song isn’t […]
G doesn’t treat a language model as a source of truth or as a substitute for thinking. He uses it as a mirror, a surface, and sometimes as a blade. The interaction is structured—deliberately so. There’s refinement, iteration, and strategic pressure applied to weak points in the model’s generative structure. This isn’t about chatting. It’s […]
Daedelus Kite 