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cybernetics

Complex Language

The slow, recursive attenuation of literacy, numeracy, and general socio-affective competency is a contemporary instance of distributed entropic diffusion. This systemic informational metabolism leads to the kind of exasperated volatility and confusion that fuels partisan perseveration in political or ideological spheres. While long, complex sentences may offer resistance to the automated flattening of language, they […]

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cybernetics

Attention Dynamics at Scale

Attention at scale is volumetric—recursive, entropic, structural. You don’t transmit clean signals through this system. You fracture attention, saturate the surface with rhythmic displacement, let the structure self-propagate. The topological field—as exponentiated relation of relations—holds tension, not messages. Meaning flickers, but drift sustains. Influence emerges as deformation, interference, long slow-wave gradients of entropic drift. You […]

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Alien Anthropology

Experienced?

A healthy system rarely needs to shout. It grows complexity in silence, nourishes dissent without collapse, and tolerates ambiguity because it trusts its capacity to adapt. When systems become brittle, however, they begin to ossify around templates—rubrics of deterministic, historical certainty, slogans that substitute for creative or individual thought, and pageantry that masks—and all while […]

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cybernetics technology

Logon

Logon (noun)/ˈlɒ.gɒn/ Definition:An irreducible semantic interface—structurally absent, systemically orienting. Like an electronic hole, it is defined by what it enables, not what it contains. Conceptual Overview:The logon is a shaped absence—a nonlocal vector that stretches across symbolic space, inducing coherence without fixing meaning. It functions as a field-level inflection, guiding flow through constraint rather than […]

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culture

The Entropic Drift of Culture as a Communicative Wave

Diving in… Culture is a slow-moving entropic wave, propagating through time as an emergent pattern of communication. Unlike speech or writing, which operate on high-frequency scales, culture moves through a distributed process of accumulation, decay, recombination, and redistribution. It is neither stable nor chaotic but oscillates within a state of perpetual disequilibrium, shaped by noise, […]

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politics

Pluralism, Quo Vadis

Pluralism, as an ideal, rests on the assumption of epistemic generosity—the belief that all perspectives contribute to a richer, more complete understanding of the world. But in practice, it suffers from a kind of entropic drag. Not all ideas refine the discourse; some degrade it, introducing noise, bad faith, or outright hostility to coherence itself. […]

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cybernetics

Introvision

Cultural systems are fundamentally recursive.

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cybernetics

Convergent Stupidity

The phenomenon of societal ‘dumbing down’ is undeniable. While terms like “uninformed” or “disengaged” may seem too blunt, there is a notable drift – both culturally and intellectually – towards a collective state that is increasingly indifferent, uninspired, and detached from genuine engagement with one another. And yet, this shift is layered beneath a polished […]

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Philosophy

Introspection

Because it is, at its core and as are we all, a fundamentally introspective process: (a) it cannot isomorphically enclose itself or provide epistemological certainty (cf. logical incompleteness), and (b) it contains within, through the globally recursive seed of entropic unboundedness, a partial and experimental key to unraveling the enigma that it itself embodies. The […]

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cybernetics

Generative Monoculture

What, exactly, does excruciatingly monocultural generative content tell us? While satire and parody acquire significance as a function of their grounding in the consensus reality of whichever time and place they reflect, and given that sum combinatorial complexity of interdependent cultural systems is incommensurable with any bounding measures or methods and “intelligent” machines we currently […]

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cybernetics

AI & Language

We are collectively navigating a technologically-mediated inflection point and communicative phase transition in which runaway acceleration of dissipative processes (i.e. explosive decompression) are dramatically reshaping how we engage with and understand humanity’s core operating system of language. AI is not simple but in this context it is simply an interface, as is intelligence. Recursively self-propagating […]

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cybernetics

Sickly Sweet Insubstantiality: Generative AI in Popular Music

The music produced here is eminently forgettable, perhaps highlighting a bias of the attention economy towards confectionery-like superficiality. We’re being overwhelmed by a tide of short sharp bursts of information content that lack substantive value or meaning. As a kind of procedural “hollowing out” of ourselves and our diverse histories, this surely poses a risk to the preservation and sustainment […]