Nothing so certainly assures the formation, continuity and self-propagation of technologically-mediated communication systems at scale as do failures to successfully communicate. We should be less surprised that discontinuous social and political relations are in ascendance: the communications systems we inhabit are utterly dependent upon a threshold of dissonant entropy as primary mechanism of generative self-propagation. […]
On a topic of philosophy, language and communication: seek what is absent to understand what is present. System unity (and meaning) is a member of this inverse set and once we understand that logical absence is simply a different kind of presence, we edge a little closer to constructively disassembling a bona fide enigma of […]
Among other things, language structurally and cognitively (as much as culturally) predisposes us through its endemic decomposability towards disconnection and discontinuity as a mechanism through which it then sustainably and adaptively self-propagates. We are broken in and as an evolving communications system that requires this disconnect to assure the recurrence of a persistent source of […]
Technological problems invoke technological solutions which then reproduce the radiating speciation of (many) more problems. Consider the untenable nature of a developmental trajectory so pathologically intent upon, and commercially incentivised by, obfuscating its own conspicuous absence of certainty, self-consistency and teleological closure.
Is integration of ecology and technology an aspiration to unify catastrophically irreconcilable antitheses? If not, how?
Signs (like words, information, communication systems and the dependent subjectivities that so vigorously self-propagate through them) are intrinsically meaningless. Meaning and value are relational properties of communication systems such that complex dependencies render isolated nodes (or words, even persons) with a subtle kind of productive futility. Not so problematic from the interior referential perspective of […]
The uncanny frequency with which narcissists percolate into positions of power is a function of the ways that the Rube Goldberg tesseract of ascendant organisational ecologies acquire an emergent orientation towards the self-selection of complementary, resonant character types. This is to say: there exists something of a distributed pathological bias for self-selecting personality traits that […]
Trauma always begets more trauma and war is a wildfire that no one can control.
Curiouser and curiouser. When we map a living thing upon or within itself and in or through its own cognitive and representational hyper-extension of technological mediation, we find our minds engaging this all as an aspiration towards closure and control yet forever fall short of attaining that goal. We can not completely model or map […]
In many ways, these complex tragedies self-replicate through the trauma they invoke. It’s something that is so characteristically human that we often don’t perceive it. The systems of psychology, culture and communication that we (all) inhabit are quite naturally and autonomously oriented towards their own recursive self-propagation. A primary method of this replication has historically […]
Raise the stakes, escalate, brutalise and threaten war but never, ever actually start a full-scale unrestrained conflict. Nothing so certainly disassembles dictatorial regimes as a blind leap into armed conflict and imperialist aggression. Sure, none of us will ever miss any of these unrepentant misanthropes but how few of them ever learn from the historical […]
Would you have preferred to have had rich parents? It should matter to you that wealth is not conjured miraculously from nothing and that the cost might not always be obvious but it is always there. Poverty only exists because wealth does.
Daedelus Kite 