The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
Tag: Complexity
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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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.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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cockroach party
Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.
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the oldest questions
Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
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