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culture

Essence

Tattoos are personal inscriptions and records of presence or potential no less than every other thing we experience and express…

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culture

Leonardo’s Kickflip

It is only a skateboard with a stenciled Last Supper and like this reference is only pretending to be something indirectly other than what it simply is…

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culture

Swimming Upstream

Swimming upstream…

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culture

Mischievous Mythology

The central fictional narrative theme is that of equal opportunity for all…

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Philosophy

A Tangled Emptiness of “I”

There’s not as much to you and your subjective self as you think, or at least – most of it is not in any sense your own…

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culture

Smart Cities ?

Cities which possess, or indeed – cultivate, an intrinsic and emergent self-organisational homeostasis are not as psychologically alluring to the common-or-garden-variety metropolitan administrator as is the fantasy and mythology of control implicit to digital technology…

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culture

Transformative Problem-Solving

Organisational transformation is not so much about working within the existing rules as it may be about reconfiguring and extending the underlying axioms and rules of organisational structure, information and energy flow such as to generate new rules and new possibilities of organisational structure and system.

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culture

An Inversion of Useful Selves

Whoever you think you are, you are probably (also) actually something quite other than that internal self-representation you hold so close…

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culture

The Blame Game: Guns and Culture

The conditions which exist within a culture which might allow, indicate or in some sense cultivate the psychological and behavioural possibility of and preponderance to mass shootings is complex and not attributable to any single cause…

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culture

Rise of the Simpletons

We may have been exquisitely unlucky in our shared selections from a poverty of all available leadership choices…

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Ontology

Finite on an Infinite Sequence

It is quite possible to exist in a finite material context while the underlying organisational principles of that context exhibit or express infinite properties…

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Ontology

Abstractions from Reality

Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…