Errors of information encoding generate the novelty through and by which these cultural systems successfully self-propagate as continuity and change. Narrative dissonance is a necessary component of social communication; an autonomous method for introducing the useful information entropy of difference through which biological, cognitive and cultural systems evolve and maintain resilience against catastrophic disassembly. This…
Climate Inaction: Let the Bumbling Begin
Never mind that the sum-total of all available evidence is so profound that the only plausible chance anyone has of not believing that Climate Change is upon us is to either be so naive or so maliciously ignorant that it is impossible to admit this fact into their personal conceptual vocabulary and interpretive framework of…
Artificial Intelligence and an Archaeology of the Present
While we are able to cultivate semi-autonomous technical solutions that provide insight into material records of communication and - through them - a historical sedimentation of the self-replicating complexities of culture and cognition in information-encoding logic (as language), we seem a little less able to apply those same technical solutions to untangle the challenges represented…
Organisational Inertia
Entrenched resistance to mature and well-informed organisational metamorphosis and (useful) new ideas is simultaneously: a concise characterisation of (the) fear of novelty, difference and change; the essential pattern and shape of (pretty much every historical instance of) organisational, political and ideological pathology; a reflection of core psychological symmetries and reflexive boundaries through which self- (or…
Flying Kites
Returning to a particularly poorly-kept secret of our shared lives: no one actually knows what they are doing and everyone is improvising, making it up as they go along. We are born into a world of pre-existing stories, traditions and symbols which envelops us like a tidal wave and security blanket of meaning, identity and…
An Organisational Uncanny Valley
The entities and artefacts we make "in our own image" include the abstractions and patterns through which we understand and organise the world and ourselves.
The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive - it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
Generational Melancholy
Every generation reinvents ennui.
Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting
As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified.
Accelerating Frames of History
The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards...
