Tag: communication systems

Techno-populism Aggressively Consumes Our Collective Future

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Post date Oct 19, 2026
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Technology at scale preferentially industrialises the parts of human nature that are easiest to measure, repeat, monetise, automate, and weaponise. Those parts are rarely our best ones.

cybernetics

The Herd Reich: Machinery of Mass Influence

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Post date Oct 6, 2026
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Nobody needs to control the machinery. Repeated communication changes what people notice, expect and respond to, gradually reshaping the culture and politics that emerge from those interactions.

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

Philosophy

[01] Disinformation Dynamics: A Relational Framework for Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

[02] Recursive Harmonics: The Mathematical Structure of Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

[03] Measurement and Diagnostics: Observing Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

[04] Relational Intervention: Modifying Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

[05] Operational Implementation: Analytical Systems for Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

[06] Synthesis and Future Directions: Towards a Relational Science of Communication

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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Philosophy

mediated intimacy

Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, automation, behavioural coupling, communication systems, dating apps, future culture, human connection, intimacy, loneliness, mediation, profit, relationships, social isolation, systems theory, technology

Philosophy

populism, unmasked

Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.

Tags Australia politics, écologie de l'information, cognition distribuée, communication politique, communication systems, communication theory, communicative delay, complex systems, couplage spectral, cybernétique, cybernetics, délai communicationnel, délai et rétroaction, delay and feedback, distributed cognition, dynamique de phase, dynamique des réseaux sociaux, dynamique sociale, emergence, espace de phase, field logic, formation des récits, guerre informationnelle, harmonic structures, idéologie, ideology, incertitude, information ecology, information propagation, information warfare, la sémantique suit la fréquence, logique de champ, media systems, narrative formation, One Nation, phase dynamics, phase space, political communication, political volatility, politique australienne, populism, populisme, propagation de l'information, resonance, semantics follows frequency, social dynamics, social media dynamics, spectral coupling, structures harmoniques, synchronisation, systèmes complexes, systèmes de communication, systèmes médiatiques, systems theory, théorie de la communication, théorie des systèmes, uncertainty, volatilité politique

cybernetics

trust

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Post date Jun 12, 2026
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Authenticity is not destroyed by media so much as converted into an interface problem: a carefully arranged background, a handful of familiar signals, and the strange little theatre by which the network teaches the self how to appear real.

Tags algorithmic culture, applied field logic, attention economy, attention markets, authenticity, authenticity paradox, authenticity theatre, communication networks, communication systems, communication theory, communicative attractors, communicative evolution, communicative systems, communicative-fields, Complexity, credibility signals, credibility technology, cultural attractors, cultural cybernetics, cultural evolution, cybernetic sociology, cybernetics, digital culture, digital identity, digital sociology, distributed cognition, distributed systems, distributed trust, emergence, emergence and adaptation, emergent order, environmental cues, environmental psychology, environmental signalling, field dynamics, Gregory Bateson, identity construction, identity diffusion, identity performance, information dynamics, information ecology, information systems, interface design, interface ecology, interface structures, Marshall McLuhan, media anthropology, media ecology, media environments, media evolution, media infrastructure, media philosophy, media studies, mediated reality, narrative identity, network civilisation, network dynamics, network effects, network selection, network society, networked communication, Niklas Luhmann, online personas, organised difference, parasocial relationships, performative authenticity, platform capitalism, platform dynamics, platform incentives, recursive adaptation, recursive systems, relational coherence, relational identity, relational ontology, relational systems, selection pressures, selfhood, semantic coherence, semantic systems, social complexity, social cybernetics, social media, social reproduction, social signalling, sociotechnical systems, statistical identity, symbolic capital, symbolic environments, symbolic reproduction, systems theory, systems thinking, technological culture, technological mediation, television history, trust formation, trust technologies, YouTube culture