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Philosophy

Fragmentary Politics

Fragmentary politics is the largely unwitting doctrine of manufacturing and sustaining endless political and sociopsychological friction in order to self-validate. It generates adversarialism and conflict, then feeds on the consequences, mistaking turbulence for relevance and agitation for purpose. This is not strategy. It is structural incompetence: the conversion of social damage into political leverage, and […]

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cybernetics

Power, Politics, Policy

Power no longer argues; it pre-configures the field. That matters because political economy now unfolds inside communicative and technological environments that behave less like instruments of choice and more like complex systems seeking autonomously self-propagating continuity. Policy disputes over reform, productivity, welfare, housing, climate, or security feel intentional and contested, yet they mostly convert disagreement […]

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Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

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Philosophy

Genius Loci: Guardian Spirit

Across cultures and eras, people have independently named the same phenomenon: the felt presence of a place or time that exceeds its physical form. The Romans called it genius loci, the spirit that animated landscapes, cities, homes, and crossroads. In Japan it appears as kami, in Celtic traditions as thin places — moments or locations […]

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Peace Philosophy

Kindness

No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]

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cybernetics

Unfinished Systems

Large systems of power, regulation, ideology, and identity do not stabilise by winning or resolving the problems they address. They stabilise by remaining unfinished. Political institutions, security apparatuses, markets, cultural movements, and ideological projects sustain themselves by managing problems they cannot conclusively solve: inequality, threat, disorder, legitimacy, desire, dissent. Total control would terminate their function. […]

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cybernetics

Geopolitical Field Logic

Geopolitical systems do not operate as collections of autonomous actors pursuing predefined goals. They operate as relational fields that maintain coherence by distributing difference, constraint, and tension across durable structures. In this frame, the long-standing adversarial relation between the United States and Russia functioned as a stabilising element of the global field. The persistence of […]

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cybernetics

Climate Systems

Climate change is not a problem to be solved but a field to be continuously engaged, tuned, shaped. It is a coupled, high-dimensional system in which energy, water, carbon, land use, infrastructure, markets, institutions, and culture co-evolve through layered delays. What matters most is not any single indicator such as average temperature, but whether these […]

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cybernetics

Effective Writing with Language Models

This is not about asking a model to generate ideas for you. It is about placing your own thinking into a responsive medium so it can be worked. You bring partial arguments, intuitions, constraints, and unresolved tensions. The model reflects them back through selective amplification: adjacent phrasings, shifts in emphasis, alternative structures. That amplification makes […]

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cybernetics

Interfacing Reality with LLM

The rise of large language models has revived old questions about intelligence, utility, and personhood, but under altered conditions. From early ideas like the Turing test onward, personhood has been framed less as inner depth than as sufficient performance. What feels newly consequential is that systems designed to model, explain, and assist human experience increasingly […]

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Philosophy

At the Edge of Meaning

Nietzsche once suggested that metaphysics is about as useful to the struggles and uncertainties of embodied life as would be knowledge of the chemical composition of water to a boatman facing a storm. The force of the remark is not hostility to thought but a boundary placed around it. In conditions of living and existential […]

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cybernetics

Institutional Machinery of Self-Description

Large institutional systems do not merely maintain narratives about what they are doing or why they are doing it. They stabilise meta-procedures: how statements are produced, validated, circulated, and sanctioned, because at scale the reasons matter less than the repeatability of the process. These methods become the true object of protection because they allow coordination […]