Tag: collective behaviour

Civilisation: Diary of a Madman

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Post date Sep 1, 2026
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A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.

politics

Meaningless Political Babble: Communication at Scale

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Post date Aug 19, 2026
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At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.

Tags bullshit, collective behaviour, communication systems, Complexity, gossip, media cycles, political communication, political discourse, political language, psychological entrainment, recursive communication, relational dynamics, self-reference, semantic underdetermination, social entrainment, systems theory

language

Probably: Why What Happens Keeps Happening

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Post date Aug 8, 2026
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The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.

cybernetics

Before the Message: A Relational Account of Persistent Disinformation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.

Tags algorithmic amplification, applied field logic, collective behaviour, communication theory, communicative persistence, communicative systems, complex systems, conspiracy narratives, cybernetics, digital media, disinformation, emergent systems, fact-checking, harmonic structure, influence operations, information theory, institutional communication, language, meaning, misinformation, narrative persistence, networked communication, organised difference, persistent disinformation, platform governance, propaganda, recurrence, relational continuity, relational organisation, relational systems, self-reproduction, social systems, spectral dynamics, system collapse, system transformation, systems theory, temporal organisation, Wiener–Khinchin theorem

cybernetics

civilisational continuity, conflict and global disorder

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.

cybernetics

how capitalism reconstructs scarcity

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Post date Jul 30, 2026
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The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.

Tags akses diferensial, authoritarianism, awtoritaryanismo, अधिनायकवाद, असमानता, कॉर्पोरेट शक्ति, जटिल प्रणालियाँ, जटिलता, तकनीकतंत्र, नियंत्रण प्रणाली, पूंजीवाद, प्रतिपुष्टि, राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था, संचार, संस्थागत अंध बिंदु, साइबरनेटिक्स, सामाजिक प्रणालियाँ, सामूहिक व्यवहार, सिस्टम सिद्धांत, सिस्टम सोच, berpikir sistem, capitalism, collective behaviour, communication, complex systems, Complexity, control systems, corporate power, cybernetics, differential access, ekonomi politik, ekonomiyang pampulitika, feedback, hindi pagkakapantay-pantay, inequality, institutional blind spots, kapangyarihang korporasyon, kapitalisme, kapitalismo, kekuasaan korporasi, ketimpangan, kolektibong pag-uugali, kompleksitas, komplikadong sistema, komplikasidad, komunikasi, komunikasyon, mga bulag na punto ng institusyon, mga sistemang pangkontrol, mga sistemang panlipunan, otoritarianisme, pag-iisip na sistemiko, perilaku kolektif, political economy, sibernetika, sistem kendali, sistem kompleks, sistem sosial, social systems, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, teknokrasi, teknokrasya, teori sistem, teorya ng sistema, titik buta institusional, umpan balik

Philosophy

unbalanced: political recursion

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Post date Jul 26, 2026
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Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.

cybernetics

Cognitive Bandwidth and the Politics of Belief

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Post date May 9, 2026
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Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.

Tags adaptive communication, adaptive communication structures, adaptive communicative systems, adaptive cultural systems, adaptive emergence, adaptive informational dynamics, adaptive political systems, adaptive semantic systems, adaptive sociotechnical systems, adaptive symbolic systems, adaptive systems theory, adaptive transmission systems, adaptive volatility, adaptive-systems, algorithmic amplification, algorithmic culture, attention, attention and culture, attention economy, attention infrastructure, attention systems, belief systems, cognition, cognitive bandwidth, cognitive carrying capacity, cognitive infrastructure, cognitive limits, cognitive overload, cognitive systems, collective behaviour, collective cognition, collective semantics, communication acceleration, communication and adaptation, communication and adaptive evolution, communication and cognition, communication and complexity, communication and emergence, communication and entropy dynamics, communication and power, communication and recursive complexity, communication and systemic risk, communication and volatility, communication attractors, communication dynamics, communication ecology, communication entropy, communication field dynamics, communication overload, communication system continuity, communication systems, communication theory, communication under complexity, communication-driven culture, communicative complexity, communicative entanglement, communicative evolution, communicative phase space, communicative recursion, communicative-fields, complex adaptive systems, complex systems, Complexity, complexity and cognition, complexity and communicative systems, complexity and culture, complexity and meaning, complexity and politics, complexity and transmission, complexity dynamics, complexity theory, cultural adaptation, cultural attractor states, cultural attractors, cultural entropy, cultural evolution, cultural feedback, cultural informational dynamics, cultural informational systems, cultural infrastructure, cultural recursion, cultural signal propagation, cultural systems, cultural throughput, cultural transmission, cultural volatility, cybernetic culture, cybernetic systems, cybernetics, distributed adaptive systems, distributed cognition, distributed cognition systems, distributed communication, distributed communicative fields, distributed cultural cognition, distributed cultural systems, distributed meaning, distributed semantic systems, distributed symbolic systems, distributed systems, emergence, emergence and complexity, entropy, entropy and belief, entropy and communication, entropy and culture, entropy and networks, entropy and sociotechnical systems, entropy and systems, entropy dynamics, evolutionary communication, feedback, field logic, human-systems, hyper-networked systems, hyperconnectivity, identity systems, ideological recursion, ideological systems, ideological transmission, information ecology, information overload, information systems, 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transmissibility, systems ontology, systems philosophy, systems propagation, systems theory, systems thinking, systems under informational pressure, systems-level communication, technoculture, technological acceleration, technological communication, technological communicative systems, technological culture, technological entropy, technological informational systems, technological media systems, technological mediation, technological social systems, technological society, technological systems, transmissibility, transmission dynamics

cybernetics

The Fool, the Follower, and the Systems That Make Them

Post author By G
Post date Mar 22, 2026
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Large populations have, at various points in history, rallied behind loud, simple, certainty-projecting figures who promise restoration, strength, or clarity amid confusion, even as those same movements steadily erode the very conditions upon which stability and shared reality depend, the quiet alignment between what people say, what they do, and what the world allows to […]

communication cybernetics politics

It is not about politics

Across many countries, the current wave of populism looks like a political shift. It is, but it is also something deeper: a change in how communication systems select and stabilise meaning.

Tags algorithmic amplification, attention economy, cognitive dynamics, collective behaviour, communication architecture, communication networks, communication systems, communication theory, complex systems, cultural dynamics, cybernetics, digital media, digital society, distributed systems, emergent behaviour, feedback loops, governance systems, information ecosystems, information flow, information integrity, information overload, information propagation, institutional-lag, mass communication, media dynamics, media influence, media theory, modern media ecology, narrative dynamics, network dynamics, networked communication, phase delay, political communication, political complexity, political systems, populism, public discourse, relational systems, semantic compression, signal transmission, signal vs noise, social complexity, social media effects, socio political systems, structural dynamics, system theory, systemic risk, systems thinking, temporal dynamics, temporal misalignment, timing and delay

cybernetics

Dissent: Another War

Resistance to war is easy to respect and hard to execute, because the same communicative channels that allow objection also convert that objection into a commercially and strategically manageable signal. A manageable signal is one whose form, timing, and intensity are already accounted for by the systems that receive it. It can be measured, narrated, […]

cybernetics

Wiener–Khinchin theorem

The Wiener–Khinchin theorem describes a quiet inevitability: when a system repeats itself, even imperfectly, that repetition condenses into structure. Time leaves a trace. Signals that return, echo, or correlate with their own past do not merely accumulate; they reorganise into a spectrum, a distribution of emphasis and weight. What looks like flux from within time […]