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cybernetics

The Architecture of Insecurity: Recursion, Technology, and Relational Dynamics in the Manosphere

The manosphere promises strength and control, yet its communities, platforms and markets are structurally and commercially dependent on reproducing the insecurities they claim to resolve.

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cybernetics

Populism: All the World’s a Feedback Loop

Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.

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cybernetics

selling subscription selves

We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.