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.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones…
We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.
You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world – there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.
That which frees us is also that which binds us.
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
A neurosis is a problem-solving solution that has lived past it’s use-by date and just keeps on keeping on.
I’m looking through you. Where did you go?
There may be something tragically inevitable in the procedural hollowing-out of social lives in an era of accelerating and technologically-mediated hyper-connectivity.
Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.
Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.
Daedelus Kite 