Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
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AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
Technology and conflict do not simply cause one another; they emerge from the same relational mechanism, where volatility, advantage, fear, and opportunity make their mutual reproduction increasingly probable.
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stasis, stasi, status, state
A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.
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conflict, continuity, complexity
Power that cannot justify itself through competence often turns to conflict as proof of necessity.
Stupidity is not the absence of intelligence. It is what remains when intelligence has no traction. At planetary scale, selection pressure favours whatever travels fastest through the channels of attention, capital, and command. Systems built to maximise replication discover that nuance is drag and understanding is latency. Thought requires time; stupidity is instantaneous. In a […]
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On Not Pulling the Pin
The recurring tension over Taiwan is often described as a clash of policies, alliances, red lines or historical claims. But at a structural level it behaves more like a maintained gradient in a communicative field. Large national identities do not simply persist by consensus or memory. They require articulated vectors – directions of tension that […]
When I was young, I was immersed in the full spectrum of popular culture—stories, myths, comics, and games that framed the world through conflict, difference, and the clean lines of good and evil. What later generations found in computer war games, I first found in Commando comics, Greek epics, Tolkien, and tabletop quests. These weren’t […]
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Immigration Insecurity
Note to self:Conflict over immigration is, before all else, conflict. If not immigration, it would be something else. The issue is not the object but the structure—how difference is processed, amplified, or suppressed within the communicative field. I study communication, language, and complex systems: how we understand what is happening to us through logic, physics, […]
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In every century, a new medium discovers how easily it can puppet the collective mind. The printing press made possible both Luther’s Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War; the telegraph and newspaper incubated nationalism; radio begot the theater of fascism; television normalized consumption as faith—and vice versa. Each era mistakes its medium for enlightenment until […]
Language drifts as matter drifts: clustering, folding, condensing into nodes of repetition that pass for meaning. It is not even significant what the transmission medium is, because entropy finds its own channels; in the end, the medium is us—our beliefs, our institutions, our most sacrosanct assumptions. Politically this volatility is evident, but volatility is precisely […]
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