Political positions and ideological fortresses are grounded in the need for and dependence upon antitheses. What may be less obvious is that a communications system signal as gradient of ideological difference embodied in adversarial geopolitics is only ever reproduced in and amplified by that competition. Like the ouroboros, it feeds upon the long tail of […]
Generative technology provides access to high-dimensional complexity while endlessly attentuating the signal and mechanism of control and certainty with which we seek to do so. This kind of balancing act is neither new nor of a dramatically different kind than previous technologies of cultural information and communications system self-propagation. The long tail of offset complexity […]
Complex systems generate their own dissonance. This is how they bind themselves with their environment. Producing entropy as an offset, communication or environmental interchange and signal transduction is a form of declarative individuation, sans agency per se. Language functions similarly in regards to how identity and rationally understood or otherwise relatively well-ordered self-descriptions reproduce themselves […]
A significant problem percolates through all this melting ice: the decomposable modularity of our languages, technologies and organisational systems remains functionally unable to comprehensively or sustainably address the complexity or scale of this issue. Subsequently, we find ourselves inhabiting and endlessly replicating media tropes of hollow platitudes and inherited generalisations that are simply not sophisticated […]
What better way to assure cultural, cognitive or communications system continuity than to anchor its rapidly speciating encoding machinery in an endlessly productive combinatorial entropy and kernel core of stochastic uncertainty? This is precisely what generative technologies are doing. Food for thought.
This “race” may indeed be a descending, dissipative system and entropy dividend as a function of the overall approximation towards the median values that percolate to ascendance through the generally recursive computational processing and validation of billions of pre-existing and manufactured datapoints. Consider, please, and if you will, that what this integrated Rube Goldberg machine […]
The first nation to engage in a treaty to leverage a learning relationship with an extraterrestrial civilisation shall likely find themselves so vastly overwhelmed by intelligence, technology and (all associated, downstream) complexity that they might later wish they had simply stayed in a cave sharpening the pointy sticks with which humans are so prone to […]
Generalised conceptual prediction: we will soon enough observe polymorphism and adaptive metamorphosis in many abstract, material, embedded and even everyday, consumer systems.
The crisis of our time is not merely ecological, political, or economic—it is structural. The very conditions that destabilize planetary systems are the same ones that drive growth, value, and novelty. We are caught in a loop: a system that feeds on uncertainty to sustain itself. Efforts to generalize often mislead, but it is precisely […]
So, I’ll just leave this here: Yes, violence is NEVER the solution in these circumstances and wildfire complexities. The problem of juridico-political and/or racial and cultural inequity is one to which systems of governance classically apply linear solutions, quite unwittingly reinstituted g the matrix sacristan of self-propagating socio-affective turbulence. It is a poorly-managed problem and […]
The generative indeterminacy of (a) living diversity is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the variously atavistic legal frameworks with which we might frame them. Discontinuities between law and activism are, in this context, the result of a false dichotomy. That is – the differences and environmentally unsustainable if not outright and questionably unethical outcomes […]
The languages and technologies with which we engage the downstream consequences of our own technical (as linguistic and communications) productivity are as unable to capture, explain and bound the accelerating metamorphosis of technological #change as is that electromechanical juggernaut (itself and also) unable to provide the linearity and closure that is forever spruiks as its […]
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