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communication

2026: The Stupid is Coming

The communicative field—call it language, media, platforms, signalling systems, whatever—does not sit outside us. It evolves through us, as us. What most people experience as agency, originality, or personal control is largely a selection effect inside a much larger communicative metabolism. We choose from it, we modulate it slightly, but the directionality is not ours. […]

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cybernetics

Exclusionary Tactics

I lost a great deal of time mistaking other people’s expectations for responsibilities I was obliged to meet. Not because they were explicit, but because they were ambient. They arrived as tone, as assumption, as the quiet sense that something was already required before any choice was made. Quietly, over years, I volunteered to process […]

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language

Symbolic Traffic

Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance […]

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Philosophy

Planetary Leadership Crisis

We are not simply, or only, facing a crisis of leadership or values. We are facing a coordination failure at planetary scale, driven by technologies and institutions that reward domination, speed, and spectacle while quietly eroding the conditions that make intelligence, civilisation, and continuity possible at all. This is not a morality play. It is […]

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cybernetics

Metabolic Power

Modern power does not stabilise disorder. It metabolises it. At planetary scale, technological and financial systems do not merely respond to uncertainty. They generate specific instabilities that make their own interventions appear necessary, then present themselves as the most probable remedy. This is not a claim about intent. It is a structural tendency of adaptive […]

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art

Desire

Desire does not move in straight lines. It curves. It sustains itself through distance, delay, and asymmetry, forming a logical orbit rather than a trajectory toward fulfilment. What appears in lived experience as longing or pursuit is not a failure of arrival but the mechanism by which relational systems remain open rather than collapse into […]

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cybernetics

Freedom from Self

Freedom is not something the self acquires; it is what becomes possible when the self loosens its grip. The more freedom is claimed by the self, the more tightly the self binds itself to definitions, expectations, dependencies, and obligations that must be maintained. Identity hardens. Choice narrows into rehearsal. Autonomy turns into enclosure. What is […]

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politics

Logical Failure

It is possible to speak about what is often labelled fascism without centring moral judgement, and instead treat it as a systemic configuration whose failure follows from structural incompatibility rather than ethical evaluation. Moral objections may be justified, but they are not what makes this form unsustainable. The failure arises from how such a configuration […]

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cybernetics

Global Field Logic

Applying field logic to the global socio-economy means treating politics not as the source of direction but as a surface articulation of deeper structural dynamics. By field logic, I mean understanding social, economic, and technological systems as continuous relational environments that shape what can stabilise, propagate, or decay before intention, belief, or ideology come into […]

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Philosophy

Hollow States

No complex system is complete, and none ever settles into final coherence. It persists by operating near its own failure modes, always collapsing toward equilibrium without arriving there. This condition is not exceptional; it is constitutive. Collapse is not what ends systems, but what allows them to reproduce themselves. Systems endure by continuously redistributing error, […]

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Philosophy

Absurd Superficiality

The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]

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Philosophy

Rising Tide

A tidal wave of technologically mediated stupidity is upon us. Never has the output of so much intellectual aptitude been so efficiently commercialised and politically transduced into such meaningless, misanthropic sludge. Conflict is not inevitable, but pragmatism suggests the commercial dividend drives this dynamic ahead of—and to some extent prior to—any sustainably humanistic rationality. The […]