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cybernetics

how capitalism reconstructs scarcity

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

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systems

Australia’s housing affordability crisis and its central contradiction

A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.

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Philosophy

Order, Entropy and the Antisymmetry of Persistence

What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.

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cybernetics

the profitable persistence of a broken world

The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.

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Philosophy

entrainment

Systems do not merely occupy space. They persist through timing, resonance, and the self-organising rhythms that sustain differential complexity.

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cybernetics

simply synchrony: rhythmic structure of complexity

Civilisations do not simply make choices. They fall into rhythms — and the future may depend on learning how to change the music.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.

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life

reflections after the venezuela doublet earthquake and rising global temperatures

It is worth remembering that civilisation persists by unacknowledged permission of the planetary systems that sustain it.

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cybernetics

second-order phase locking

Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.

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cybernetics

phase control: communication, power, and the politics of timing

Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.

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Philosophy

populism, unmasked

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

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cybernetics

strait of hormuz

The more instability surrounds the Strait of Hormuz, the more valuable it becomes. The paradox is that a prolonged conflict may be increasing the strategic importance of one of Iran’s most powerful sources of leverage.