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Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism claims to see outward, yet its deepest capture is inward. Any system that grounds authority in exhaustive data collection must internalise its own apparatus. The observer becomes the most observed entity in the field. As capture intensifies, freedom contracts. Control architectures require constant calibration and escalation, growing brittle, paranoid, and self-consuming. Power built […]

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AI Market Collapse as Political Reset Switch

Post author By G
Post date Jan 9, 2026
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What we are seeing does not require villains of unusual intelligence. Systems theory already explains it. Given enough time, scale, and communicative density, a field that rewards information throughput over stability will drift toward political decay. When wealth, power, and cultivated ignorance align inside technologically mediated communicative systems, destructive behaviour does not need intent or […]

Tags ai market collapse, ai market crash, artificial intelligence bubble, attention economy, civilizational risk, cognitive capture, communicative systems, decline of democracy, field logic, information throughput, institutional collapse, political decay, political economy, structural collapse, system reset, systemic instability, systems theory, technological mediation

Philosophy

2026 Technocracy: More Control, Less Comprehension

Post author By G
Post date Dec 31, 2025
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We are likely worrying about the wrong thing. The danger is not that AI amplifies stupidity, volatility, selfishness, or ideological corruption. The danger is the speed of that amplification, the smoothness with which it integrates into ordinary life, and the ease with which this acceleration is framed as inevitable. It is not inevitable. But velocity […]

Tags 2026, AI and power, AI governance, AI risks, algorithmic governance, algorithmic power, Artificial Intelligence, attention economy, authoritarian acceleration, authoritarianism, choice architecture, civilisational collapse, cognitive capture, collapse dynamics, complexity and governance, consequence deferral, control society, encoded choice, entropy, entropy and power, field logic, future collapse, future of humanity, global instability, late capitalism, loss of agency, mass psychosis, oscillatory instability, phase transition, platform capitalism, probability collapse, socio-technical systems, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems theory, technocracy, technological determinism, technology and society