A few weeks (is it two, or three, now?) into isolation and social distancing, it is all starting to get a bit depressing. Never being anything much of a social butterfly at the best of times, I still feel a visceral burden of dread and anxiety mounting, an overwhelming sense of dread and emptiness. There…
The Storm is upon us all…
There is a deepening feeling of doom (and gloom) as coronavirus begins to take hold across our community. We see the numbers growing daily; accelerating, exponentiating. At some point this will no longer be "someone else's" illness, it will be upon us; a tidal surge of trillions of sinister nano-scale biological robots, wicked ribonucleic algorithms…
COVID19 and Global Economic Devastation
Beyond the self-evident inadequacies of our integrated bureaucratic hierarchies, the labyrinth of systemic biases which have funneled wealth into corporate welfare and monopolistic hegemonies are now revealing their utter ineptitude at providing adequate socioeconomic resilience. You could ask why no one saw this coming. Many people did, they just did not know what shape or…
Monday mornings…
...a vast and yawning abyss of commuter futility only partially masked by the endless distraction of engorging ourselves on information artefacts, channels, opinions, fiction and repetition. It is as though we can not even savour our loneliness and feelings of dispossession or pointlessness at all of this cyclical and directionless repetition. The cognitive landscape of…
Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
Generational Melancholy
Every generation reinvents ennui.
The Hard Facts of Cultural Selfies
Instagram does not only generate dissatisfaction, it thrives on it.
Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least - the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0
Bureaucracy Simulator 2.0, in stores near you soon...
