Tag: collective behaviour

Yes, We’re All Individuals

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Post date Oct 8, 2026
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Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Autorreproducción, アイデンティティ, コミュニケーション, システム思考, テクノロジー, collective behaviour, communication, complejidad, Complexity, Comportamiento Colectivo, comunicación, Conformidad Institucional, Diferencia, difference, Differenz, emergence, emergencia, Emergenz, 自己再生産, 集団行動, 複雑性, 言語, filosofía, identidad, Identität, identity, institutional conformity, Institutionelle Konformität, inteligencia artificial, künstliche Intelligenz, Kollektives Verhalten, Kommunikation, Komplexität, language, lenguaje, pensamiento sistémico, philosophie, Philosophy, Selbstreproduktion, self-reproduction, Sprache, Systemdenken, systems thinking, technologie, technology, tecnología, 制度的同調, 創発, 哲学, 差異, 人工知能

cybernetics

France Protests: When Grievances Begin to Synchronise

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Post date Oct 7, 2026
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A protest becomes something different when separate grievances begin moving at the same time. France offers a glimpse of how synchronisation amplifies communicative affect.

Tags collective behaviour, communication, complex systems, education, France, political communication, protest, social dynamics, spectral dynamics, student, synchronisation, systems theory

cybernetics

Populism Without a Populist

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Post date Oct 6, 2026
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Populism may not need to be manufactured. An overwhelmed communication system already rewards simplification, antagonism and recurrence, while those best placed to change it profit from the resulting volatility.

Tags algorithms, attention economy, collective behaviour, communication, democracy, information, mass communication, media, political communication, political-polarisation, populism, propaganda, social media, systems theory, technology

Philosophy

Fascism as Consequence: How Communication Systems (can) Drift Toward Dictatorship

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Post date Sep 28, 2026
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Fascism does not begin with a dictator. It takes shape through recurrent patterns of threat, identity and authority, until a leader can occupy the position those patterns have made available.

Tags authoritarianism, collective behaviour, fascism, harmonic entrainment, political communication, populism, social media, systems theory

cybernetics Philosophy

Why Civilisation Cannot Solve the Problems It Creates: 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, informational attractors, informational civilisation, informational continuity, informational culture, informational density, informational ecosystems, informational environments, informational phase space, informational politics, informational recursion, informational recursion dynamics, informational social systems, informational survivability, informational systems, media acceleration, media ecology, media recursion, media systems, media theory, network culture, network dynamics, networked belief systems, networked cognition, networked communication, networked society, neural bandwidth, phase space, phase-space dynamics, philosophy of technology, platform dynamics, political communication, political communication systems, political entropy, political psychology, political systems, politics of belief, recurrence, recursion, recursive adaptation, recursive adaptive systems, recursive amplification, recursive attention systems, recursive belief structures, recursive communication, recursive communication ecology, recursive communication structures, recursive communication systems, recursive communicative entanglement, recursive cultural attractors, recursive cultural communication, recursive cultural evolution, recursive cultural morphology, recursive cultural systems, recursive cultural transmission, recursive dynamics, recursive entropy, recursive field dynamics, recursive identity, recursive ideological propagation, recursive ideological systems, recursive ideology, recursive informational ecology, recursive informational systems, recursive media, recursive network dynamics, recursive political communication, recursive politics, recursive semantic systems, recursive semantics, recursive social dynamics, recursive social entanglement, recursive social propagation, recursive social systems, recursive socio-cultural systems, recursive sociotechnical systems, recursive structures, recursive symbolic structures, recursive systems, recursive transmission, semantic amplification, semantic attractors, semantic compression, semantic density, semantic evolution, semantic fields, semantic infrastructu, semantic recurrence, semantic recursion, semantic stability, semantic systems, semantic transmission, semantics, signal propagation, social communication systems, social complexity, social entropy, social systems, sociotechnical complexity, sociotechnical systems, symbolic compression, symbolic systems, symbolic transmission, systemic adaptation, systemic cognition, systemic communication, systemic dynamics, systemic emergence, systemic informational dynamics, systemic risk, systemic semantic evolution, systems and communication, systems and entropy, systems and identity, systems and identity formation, systems and media, systems and recurrence, systems and symbolic order, systems dynamics, systems ecology, systems emergence, systems of collective belief, systems of meaning, systems of recurrence, systems of symbolic reproduction, systems of 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