Words work before they mean. Long before comprehension, their rhythm, tone, and pattern capture attention. They anchor consciousness. This is semiosis at its rawest: symbols not yet parsed but already guiding perception. A word doesn’t just describe—it arranges how the mind listens, what it expects, and where it looks. Repetition, cadence, and emotional charge cultivate […]
Attention at scale is volumetric—recursive, entropic, structural. You don’t transmit clean signals through this system. You fracture attention, saturate the surface with rhythmic displacement, let the structure self-propagate. The topological field—as exponentiated relation of relations—holds tension, not messages. Meaning flickers, but drift sustains. Influence emerges as deformation, interference, long slow-wave gradients of entropic drift. You […]
Context: ‘It’s Going to Take a Long, Long Time.’ How the Uproar Over a Bollywood Lyric About Beyoncé Fits Into the Fight Against Colorism in India As Malcolm McLaren (as manager of the Sex Pistols) once noted – there is no such thing as bad publicity – he even cancelled performance to make the band […]
No one is listening.
Daedelus Kite 