The institutions tasked with examining society have become incapable of examining themselves.
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australian universities are broken
Category: cybernetics
The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.
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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cockroach party
Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.
Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.
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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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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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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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recursion, technically
Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.
Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
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