Absence is not the opposite of existence, but the generative condition through which difference, organisation, consciousness and cosmos emerge and persist.
Category: Philosophy
The power to destroy an institution does not confer the authority to abolish it. The United States cannot extinguish the International Criminal Court through coercion without replacing the legal principles upon which its own claims to sovereignty and authority depend.
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Peace, man…
You wouldn’t think peace would be so difficult, but we’ve built an entire civilisation around making war easier.
A civilisation that turns its moral deterioration into public spectacle reorganises the relationships through which political power is recognised, contested and reproduced, making cruelty both a symptom of its decline and a means of perpetuating it.
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The Precarity of Thinking
Ideas are fragile, and their expression more so. In a culture increasingly synchronised by fear, hatred and repetition, independent thought becomes an act of integrity, and the freedom to communicate something genuinely different becomes increasingly precious.
We have become extraordinarily good at making technology better, but much less skilled at recognising when good enough is enough. Much of what passes for progress now serves profit rather than people, so deeply embedded in our culture that we scarcely recognise the difference.
A humanistic philosophy informed by system dynamics: why simple solutions often displace problems across time and systems rather than resolving them.
AI citation failures reveal something larger than a technical flaw: a civilisation increasingly efficient at reproducing knowledge while losing track of how it became known.
Our existential crisis lies in this entanglement: the relations through which we could create different, better, futures keep being recruited into the continuation of the arrangements that restrict them.
The question is no longer whether writers use generative technology. It is what remains of the writer after the technology becomes indispensable.
We are building extraordinarily intelligent machines to solve a problem whose governing assumptions remain remarkably primitive.
We are building a world that needs to know more and more about us, just as being unknown becomes increasingly valuable.
