Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time. Continue reading Encoding Culture
Tag: change
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems. Continue reading Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting
As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified. Continue reading Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting
Accelerating Frames of History
The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards… Continue reading Accelerating Frames of History
Culture: Gothic Complexity
The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication. Continue reading Culture: Gothic Complexity
Inflection
Cultural and technological change and progress is an acceleration measured relative to its own process… Continue reading Inflection
On Losing Control
Control may be necessary at a personal and social level but is for all that no less a convenient fiction and a contingent, transient illusion than is self… Continue reading On Losing Control
