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cybernetics

communication theory: local convergence and the generative attractor

Communication converges locally while preserving uncertainty globally. Temporary centres stabilise meaning, a wider field remains generative rather than resolved.

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cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

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cybernetics

australian universities are broken

The institutions tasked with examining society have become incapable of examining themselves.

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cybernetics

the profitable persistence of a broken world

The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.

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cybernetics

ai, money and the economics of sameness

When everyone uses the same intelligence to compete for the same opportunities, intelligence ceases to be the advantage. Competition becomes the system’s principal output.

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cybernetics

cockroach party

Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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cybernetics

simple, simpler, simplistic

The persistence of populist political narratives as a function of transmissibility explains how and why verifiable truth becomes secondary in public debate.

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cybernetics

selling subscription selves

We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.

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cybernetics

dire straits: the economics of delay

Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.

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cybernetics

recursion, technically

Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.

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cybernetics

towards a transfinite geometry of communication and control

Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.