Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?
Metalogical
We become ensnared in the grand circularity of texts and philosophical assertions or opinions which characterise and compose the shared world of belief and illusion…
Art without Affirmation
Valuable intellectual, artistic or literary creative work is not dependent upon affirmation…
Letting Go
The discomfort caused by the dissonance between what (we think) we need to be and what we actually are…
Reflections: Don’t Feed The Troll
There is no sense in which the normative value of a consensus morality is the central concern for a bully or online troll. Piranha feeding at a corpse do not much care for the reason the corpse lies before them in the water…
Social Media: The Shame Game ?
The hyper-sensitivities of online social spaces have created a new moral matrix…
No-one knows how AI works
No one really knows how the most advanced AI algorithms do what they do. I am not sure if this is actually a problem…
Facebook’s “Safety Check”
Social realities have always been culturally-mediated spaces but when these spaces are themselves aligned to corporate financial gain, even genuinely or potentially useful post-disaster communications and humanitarian tools seem hollow and superficial…
The “Mediation” in Social Media
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…
Through the Looking Glass
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?
Nurturing Creativity
Nurture creativity wherever you find it – in yourself, in others or in the world. It is far too precious to waste…
…attempts to lock systems down inadvertently create the loopholes and logics of their own failure…