I wonder at times if all of our emotional lives are little more than random fluctuations and transient, effervescent flickering candle flames in the chaos of our minds and of this, our shared world. Somewhere between the volatile, if probabilistically determinate, entropy of physiological or cognitive reflex and those diverse rationales and causes we retrospectively…
Aspirational Creativity and Self-Improvement
There is no best, there is only better and it is a consequence of core psychological fallacies that we even assert or adhere to concepts and narratives of artistic, literary, ideological, political or existential completion and closure. It is always possible to creatively extend any system (or creative act of self-definition) by intuition and recursive…
Flying Kites
Returning to a particularly poorly-kept secret of our shared lives: no one actually knows what they are doing and everyone is improvising, making it up as they go along. We are born into a world of pre-existing stories, traditions and symbols which envelops us like a tidal wave and security blanket of meaning, identity and…
These Masks Wear Us
These masks of self obscure only the fact of their own emptiness.
An Organisational Uncanny Valley
The entities and artefacts we make "in our own image" include the abstractions and patterns through which we understand and organise the world and ourselves.
Disentangling Hate
Who benefits from stoking the fires of fear, insecurity and hatred?
Detecting Deception
In an era of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there may be nowhere that is not unveiled by the light of information and data measurement.
What is Beauty?
True beauty just is, and exists before language, thought and technology.
Desire and Fear
We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.
Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
A Fascination with Broken Things
Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones...
The Abject Dissolution of Object Relations
We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.
