Category: Philosophy

Theory of Language and Communication

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Post date Jan 25, 2026
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Formal Abstract This document presents a formal, process-based theory of language, information, and dynamic meaning systems. Communication, cognition, identity, legitimacy, and truth are treated not as static entities but as temporally constituted processes sustained through repetition, coupling, and feedback within distributed fields. A minimal axiom set grounded in acts, timing, coupling, recursion, variation, and emergent […]

Tags adaptive-systems, algorithmic systems, applied cybernetics, artificial intelligence and communication, cognitive systems, communication ecology, communication systems, communication theory, complex systems, complexity philosophy, control theory, coupling dynamics, cultural dynamics, cultural systems, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, disinformation theory, distributed cognition, dynamic meaning, emergence, emergent order, entropy and variation, epistemic systems, Epistemology, feedback systems, field theory of meaning, formal systems theory, general theory of language, Global Systems, governance systems, identity systems, information systems, information theory, institutional systems, legitimacy dynamics, meaning systems, meaning-formation, media ecology, network dynamics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phase dynamics, philosophy of information, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, political communication, political economy of information, process ontology, recursion, reflexive governance, resilience theory, semantics, social cybernetics, social systems, structural dynamics, system coherence, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems design, systems intelligence, systems modelling, systems theory, technological mediation, temporal systems, theoretical cybernetics, truth and legitimacy, unified systems framework

Philosophy

Fragmentary Politics

Fragmentary politics is the largely unwitting doctrine of manufacturing and sustaining endless political and sociopsychological friction in order to self-validate. It generates adversarialism and conflict, then feeds on the consequences, mistaking turbulence for relevance and agitation for purpose. This is not strategy. It is structural incompetence: the conversion of social damage into political leverage, and […]

Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

Philosophy

Genius Loci: Guardian Spirit

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Post date Jan 24, 2026
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Across cultures and eras, people have independently named the same phenomenon: the felt presence of a place or time that exceeds its physical form. The Romans called it genius loci, the spirit that animated landscapes, cities, homes, and crossroads. In Japan it appears as kami, in Celtic traditions as thin places — moments or locations […]

Peace Philosophy

Kindness

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Post date Jan 23, 2026
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No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]

Philosophy

At the Edge of Meaning

Nietzsche once suggested that metaphysics is about as useful to the struggles and uncertainties of embodied life as would be knowledge of the chemical composition of water to a boatman facing a storm. The force of the remark is not hostility to thought but a boundary placed around it. In conditions of living and existential […]

Philosophy

Strange Days

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Post date Jan 18, 2026
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What strikes me most about the current president of the United States is a strange inversion that would be almost comic if it were not so consequential. He shows little regard for the role he occupies, scant respect for the law, and no evident commitment to the country beyond what it can deliver to him […]

Philosophy

Moral Inversion

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Post date Jan 17, 2026
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Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]

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Philosophy

Structural Insecurity Precedes Moral Failure

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Post date Jan 17, 2026
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Racism, misogyny, and other forms of exclusion recur not because they are compelling, justified, or desirable, but because large-scale social systems are biased toward generating them, or things like them, under stress. Calling this structural does not mean denying choice. People do make choices, good, bad, and ugly, and they live with the consequences of […]

Philosophy

Teresa Brennan: Philosophy of Affect

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Post date Jan 15, 2026
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Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher whose work crossed psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory, frequently placing her at odds with academic orthodoxy. She challenged dominant Lacanian interpretations by insisting that affect is not a linguistic effect or private feeling but a materially transmissible force that moves between bodies and across institutions. This stance drew […]

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cybernetics language Philosophy

Living Inside Language

We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

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Philosophy

Kindness is Sacred

Your happiness, your humanity, your goodness are not grounded in power, domination, control, or wealth. They arise from something far older and far less containable: the living, unbounded field of human life itself, of which each person is a singular instance, including the frightened and the angry. That field is complex, paradoxical, and irreducible. Much […]