Attempting to keep track of the endlessly unfurling Baroque curlicues and relentlessly iterating patterned flows of information and interpreted or shifting meanings leaves little time for big-picture comprehension or analysis…
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Inflection
Cultural and technological change and progress is an acceleration measured relative to its own process…
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Methods of Cultural Replication
Cultural replication is of the various dynamic methods and adaptive, evolving rules and frameworks of replication and culturally recursive information transmission.
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Cultural Recursion
We are witnessing the perpetuation of systems of rule and information transmission in which our own biological, psychological and existential biases lead us to mistakenly identify ourselves as the primary components (and purposes) of this process.
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Cultural Algorithm
The dynamic activity of the methods, frameworks and algorithms of cultural encryption indicate that the nodes in any sufficiently sophisticated communications or information transmission system are secondary considerations to the primary functioning of a recursive self-replication of those same methods, frameworks and algorithms.
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Leonardo’s Kickflip
It is only a skateboard with a stenciled Last Supper and like this reference is only pretending to be something indirectly other than what it simply is…
A simple creature, bound within a temporal stream as we are, finds itself living a rich symbolic life supported by myriad narrative inventions, of beginnings and notional teleologies and idealised (or ideological) end-states
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Semiotic Elasticity
There is in essence no true “outside” or inalienable “counter” culture; everything exists on some interior surface, warped and twisted back upon and through itself…
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Innovation
If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…
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Discontinuous
There exists a vast discontinuity and rupture running through the middle of this world…
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Lost in You
I am lost in you, but then I am also lost in me…
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The “Mediation” in Social Media
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…
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