Symbolic representation is always in dynamic balance with the complexity it tries to capture. Narratives, languages, and cultural signs compress overwhelming multiplicity into shareable forms, but compression means loss. What is lost is precisely the irreducible turbulence, entanglement, and simultaneity of cultural and civilizational life. Language provides scaffolding for thought and communication, but its grammar […]
It’s easy to think the difficulty lies in you, but more often than not, the problem is structural. Friendship itself has been hollowed out by the systems in which it now has to exist. Communication has shifted into commercial frameworks where attention, presence, and even intimacy are reduced to tokens of exchange. Whether or not […]
The rise of rigid ideology is a reciprocal function of the simplicity of the language with which it embellishes itself. This is not a moral judgement, nor an apologetic for autocracy, but a statistical inevitability: simplicity wins because simplicity persists. Such narratives are not the only dynamics at work, but they gain disproportionate attention. Words […]
The institutions that claim to be the guardians of knowledge—universities, governments, large corporations—have all become deeply entangled in their own logic of continuity. Universities in particular once positioned themselves as sanctuaries for critical thought, but the reality today is closer to Stafford Beer’s observation in Platform for Change (1975): organizations tend not to innovate, they […]
The uproar around immigration is less about migration itself than about the structural turbulence of complex systems diffusing toward equilibrium. Blaming newcomers is the lowest common denominator because it provides a ready-made, simplified narrative—one that maps frustration onto visible targets rather than onto the more abstract dynamics of monopolistic economics, institutional inertia, or technological disruption. […]
It is a mistake to imagine that cruelty or deception arise from the rare brilliance of tyrants or the careful engineering of conspirators. The truth is flatter, colder: given time, scale, and opportunity, suffering emerges almost as a default outcome, an entropic drift in human systems. Power does not require genius to become exploitative; it […]
Studying machine learning now looks less like a steady ascent and more like an asymptotic orbital reference frame perennially caught in and constrained between attraction and repulsion. The desire is centripetal, a pull towards the imagined centre of mastery and promise, but the structure itself functions centrifugally, casting people back out, denying arrival. The gap […]
Big technology does not connect you—it consumes you. Its business model is not service but extraction. Every keystroke, every gesture, every delay in loading a page becomes a commodity. You are not the customer; you are the crop. The analogy of farming is no metaphor at all: platforms cultivate dependency as a field is tilled […]
Even quantum physicists cannot agree on what “quantum” means, and this is not a trivial quirk but the ground itself on which the science stands. Competing interpretations—from Copenhagen collapse to Many-Worlds, pilot-wave theories, and newer relational models—circle the same mathematical successes with divergent ontological claims. The mathematics works with uncanny precision, yet the conceptual foundation […]
Abstract This paper advances a cybernetic account of complex adaptive systems in which coherence is sustained by unresolved tension rather than equilibrium. The orbit frame is introduced as a relational model that represents systems as networks of elastic constraints across gaps that never fully close. Logical orbit is defined as the recursive dynamical process that […]
On Suffering, Communication, and the Institutionalisation of Despair Suffering isn’t anomalous; it’s transmissible. And crucially, it’s more transmissible than almost anything else. In the logic of communication systems, negativity spreads not because of some metaphysical malevolence but because of the dynamics of signal transmission itself. Fear, outrage, grief—they’re high-frequency, low-bandwidth. They slot neatly into channels […]
Technology offers the illusion of choice, but this abundance of options rarely constitutes a solution. A true solution integrates context, consequence, and continuity; it reshapes the system from which the problem arose. An option, by contrast, is a terminus disguised as autonomy—predefined, delimited, and often contingent upon the very infrastructure that created the tension in […]
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