Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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Subscription

Post author By G
Post date Feb 5, 2026
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In a world that has deeply and intractably commercialised the concept and experience of individuality, the very last thing actually required of us is to be different. We are sorted and we voluntarily self-sort into labels and categories, compressing ourselves into neat, data-ready boxes that serve as containers for self-managed subscription into vast machines of […]

cybernetics

Productive Misanthropy

Service delivery systems must model the environments they act within. This is unavoidable. Eligibility rules, risk categories, performance metrics, and compliance frameworks are all abstractions that allow action under constraint. The model is not the world. It is an interface that reduces complexity to something administrable. Over time, however, the interface acquires weight. The abstraction […]

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culture

Data Exploitation: Technologies of the Self

Post author By G
Post date Mar 29, 2018
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The bundled aggregation and recorded sedimentation of information within, between and around individuals is not simply a symptom of an accelerating information and technological communications culture – it precisely and constitutively is that culture…

Tags cambridge analytica, Complexity, data exploitation, digital identity, emergent complexity, Facebook, Psychology, social media, systems, technology