Tag: cybernetics

Cybernetics: Good Intentions, Bad Vibes

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Post date Jan 27, 2026
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The language of the school was expansive: culture, power, technology, ethics, ecology, gender, indigeneity, diversity, human experience, systems, responsibility, complexity. It spoke fluently about uncertainty, fragility, and care. It marketed itself as a space for deep reflection on and constructive engagement with how technological systems were and are reshaping civilisation. But in one all-staff meeting, […]

Tags academic publishing, adversarial politics, aesthetic critique, AI slop, ANU, Australian universities, biodiversity, Canberra, climate and governance, communication systems, complexity theory, corporate power, cultural politics, cybernetics, diversity discourse, epistemic uncertainty, ethics and technology, feedback loops, field logic, forests and ecology, gender and culture, governance, human experience, indigeneity and culture, institutional culture, knowledge institutions, language and meaning, learning and recovery, legitimacy economy, media ecology, metabolic systems, natural systems, op-ed, organizational continuity, organizational metabolism, post-truth systems, power dynamics, public intellectualism, recursive power, resilience, stroke recovery, structural critique, system blindness, systemic capture, systems ecology, systems thinking, technocracy, technological leviathan, truth and doubt, unintended consequences, wildlife symbolism

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Policing Generative Tool Use

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Post date Jan 27, 2026
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It does not matter whether you write with generative technologies or not. If you have no ideas, no curiosity, no necessity to think, then artificial intelligence will simply amplify the emptiness. It will generate fluent noise, decorative coherence, and nothing else. The result is regurgitated pattern-matching, consumed as novelty and mistaken for intelligence. Most people […]

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Time Management in Service Delivery Systems

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Post date Jan 26, 2026
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Service management systems are plagued by managerial failure. The primary error is the belief that regulatory oversight exists to eradicate delay, to accelerate everything. The result is a chaotic environment in which every actor attempts to displace temporal and material costs onto other people, times, and places – both within and beyond the organisation. This […]

Philosophy

Theory of Language and Communication

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Post date Jan 25, 2026
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Formal Abstract This document presents a formal, process-based theory of language, information, and dynamic meaning systems. Communication, cognition, identity, legitimacy, and truth are treated not as static entities but as temporally constituted processes sustained through repetition, coupling, and feedback within distributed fields. A minimal axiom set grounded in acts, timing, coupling, recursion, variation, and emergent […]

Tags adaptive-systems, algorithmic systems, applied cybernetics, artificial intelligence and communication, cognitive systems, communication ecology, communication systems, communication theory, complex systems, complexity philosophy, control theory, coupling dynamics, cultural dynamics, cultural systems, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, disinformation theory, distributed cognition, dynamic meaning, emergence, emergent order, entropy and variation, epistemic systems, Epistemology, feedback systems, field theory of meaning, formal systems theory, general theory of language, Global Systems, governance systems, identity systems, information systems, information theory, institutional systems, legitimacy dynamics, meaning systems, meaning-formation, media ecology, network dynamics, nonlinear-dynamics, Ontology, phase dynamics, philosophy of information, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, political communication, political economy of information, process ontology, recursion, reflexive governance, resilience theory, semantics, social cybernetics, social systems, structural dynamics, system coherence, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems design, systems intelligence, systems modelling, systems theory, technological mediation, temporal systems, theoretical cybernetics, truth and legitimacy, unified systems framework

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The Game

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Post date Jan 25, 2026
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Systems of governance and regulation, insofar as they attempt to secure social, economic, and existential continuity, are structurally compromised. Their primary function is not effective service delivery, but the preservation of administrative and status hierarchies. Continuity of role, office, and influence comes first; the public good follows, if at all. Politics becomes theatre. Institutions become […]

Tags administrative bloat, bureaucratic inertia, civilizational breakdown, civilizational risk, communication systems, complex systems, cultural decline, cybernetics, existential crisis, financial power, future collapse, global instability, governance reform, governance-failure, greed, higher education collapse, inequality, information overload, institutional critique, institutional decay, institutional self preservation, knowledge suppression, late capitalism, media ecology, political dysfunction, political economy, power concentration, regulatory failure, social fragmentation, status hierarchy, structural tragedy, sustainability failure, systemic collapse, systemic risk, systems theory, technocracy critique, technocratic governance, technological mediation, university crisis

life

Crunch Time: Metacrisis

We are now in genuine crunch time—globally, systemically, and environmentally. The convergence of political instability, ecological degradation, technological acceleration, and institutional fragility has pushed human civilisation into a narrow and dangerous corridor. This is not rhetorical escalation. It is structural reality. I have spent decades developing a rigorous systems model for sustainable global engagement, grounded […]

Philosophy

Language as Limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of the world, not as metaphor but as structural fact: what cannot be said cannot be thought in any stable form. Bertrand Russell pursued logical atomism to anchor meaning in precise correspondence, seeking a syntax that could mirror reality without residue. Charles Sanders Peirce […]

Philosophy

Genius Loci: Guardian Spirit

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Post date Jan 24, 2026
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Across cultures and eras, people have independently named the same phenomenon: the felt presence of a place or time that exceeds its physical form. The Romans called it genius loci, the spirit that animated landscapes, cities, homes, and crossroads. In Japan it appears as kami, in Celtic traditions as thin places — moments or locations […]

Peace Philosophy

Kindness

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Post date Jan 23, 2026
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No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]

cybernetics

Technocratic Tyrrany

We use technologies that also use us. Over time, methods are formalised into metrics, metrics are stabilised into categories of meaning, and tools designed to assist begin to define which actions are recognised as valid. What once supported activity becomes background infrastructure. The tools move to the centre. Human experience no longer anchors them; it […]

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Living Inside Language

We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

Tags abstraction, abstraction drift, adaptability, administrative rationality, algorithmic decision making, ambiguity tolerance, artificial intelligence limits, automation and society, bureaucratic systems, categorisation, cognitive science, communication systems, complexity science, consciousness studies, control systems, cultural systems, cybernetics, data driven systems, decision infrastructures, distributed intelligence, efficiency logic, embodied cognition, emergence, epistemic humility, Epistemology, ethical technology, everyday philosophy, extended mind, feedback loops, formalisation, generative systems, governance systems, human centred systems, human cognition, human experience, humane design, information theory, institutional design, instrumental rationality, intelligence as field, interface thinking, language and reality, language technologies, loss of context, machine learning critique, managerial logic, meaning making, metrics and meaning, modern rationalism, Ontology, organisational behaviour, perception and reality, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, popular philosophy, power and knowledge, predictive systems, procedural reasoning, provisional knowledge, public understanding of complexity, resilience, responsibility and agency, rule based systems, science communication, sensemaking, social complexity, social systems, standardisation, symbolic systems, system optimisation, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, technological mediation, translation across domains, uncertainty

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After Trump

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Post date Jan 13, 2026
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If the United States survives Trump, there is a genuine possibility of reconstruction, but only because damage exposes the relationships that mattered and brings hidden dependencies into the open, revealing how the system was actually held together. The damage being inflicted is real and severe, economic and political at once. Disruption to institutions, markets, and […]

Tags adaptive governance, applied systems theory, authoritarian governance, authority and force, cognitive diversity, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, complexity and democracy, complexity theory, coordination without central command, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, decentralised coordination, democratic resilience, distributed intelligence, economic reconstruction, emergence, feedback loops, field logic, governance systems, holism, institutional collapse, institutional rebuilding, learning systems, legitimacy and power, non-linear dynamics, performative governance, phase delay, policy failure, political cybernetics, political economy, political systems analysis, post-crisis reconstruction, reconstruction politics, resilience theory, second-order cybernetics, signal and noise, social cohesion, spectacle politics, system failure modes, systems collapse, systems learning, systems resilience, systems theory, Trump, Trump politics, Trump presidency, worker-centered reconstruction