The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]
Governance can be understood as the management of phase relations within an ensemble, not the enforcement of uniform behaviour. In any governed system—social, institutional, technical, or ecological—coherence does not arise from fixing positions or eliminating difference. It arises from partial synchronisation: agents align enough to act collectively while remaining out of phase enough to retain […]
The self is commonly understood as something one has: a centre of experience, a point of view, a continuous “me” that persists through time. Psychological models tend to formalise this intuition by treating the self as a representational structure—narrative continuity, minimal experiential core, or predictive model—through which coherence can be maintained. This move is not […]
…any system complex enough to interpret must remain vulnerable to the modulation of its own interpretive dynamics…
The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]
