Ambiguity is not the failure of truth; it is the field through which truth sustains itself. What we name “disinformation” is simply the deliberate modulation of this ambiguity—the thickening of uncertainty at the edges so that order can stabilise at the centre. Systems depend on that tension. Clarity cannot exist without contrast, nor coherence without […]
In every century, a new medium discovers how easily it can puppet the collective mind. The printing press made possible both Luther’s Reformation and the Thirty Years’ War; the telegraph and newspaper incubated nationalism; radio begot the theater of fascism; television normalized consumption as faith—and vice versa. Each era mistakes its medium for enlightenment until […]
Disinformation functions as a dynamical system in which information fragments compete for finite cognitive bandwidth. Each carries a propagation weight—shaped by repetition, affect, and network structure—that determines its endurance. Truth, under such dynamics, is not inherent but emergent, a transient equilibrium of reinforcement within stochastic noise. Algorithms that reward engagement amplify instability, creating belief attractors […]
In communicative systems, coherence does not arise from shared meaning but from rhythmic alignment. Spectral coupling describes this alignment across frequencies—how patterns of oscillation, delay, and amplitude between subsystems interact to produce stability or distortion. It is not the transmission of messages but the entrainment of their timing and resonance. Within a field logic perspective, […]
…any system complex enough to interpret must remain vulnerable to the modulation of its own interpretive dynamics…
Language is a dynamic communicative field of oscillatory coupling, in which coherence, drift, and disinformation emerge as harmonic modes of the same process. Drawing on Kuramoto’s synchronisation model, synergetics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory, this essay interprets linguistic activity as rhythmic modulation between repetition and deviation. Meaning arises through metastable oscillation among semantic attractors, maintained […]
Meaning can be understood as relational invariance under transformation. In mathematics, invariance is what stays the same when everything else changes. In physics, such stability gives rise to conservation laws — momentum from translational symmetry, energy from temporal symmetry. Language behaves the same way: its meaning persists not through fixed definitions but through relationships that […]
Sometimes, when people look at me and speak, I don’t hear the words—I see the mouth moving and hear the noise, nothing more. It feels like those moments when a familiar word suddenly turns strange, hollowed of meaning, its surface exposed. I think this happens to all of us: every so often, language reveals itself […]
The soup de jour is disinformation: I found myself watching the movie World War Z (again) recently. The biological plausibility of a zombie virus that can detect and avoid sickness as a critical vulnerability and plot twist wasn’t quite enough to render the movie as being anything significantly other than “Brad Pitt saves the world, […]
I wonder if we should be more concerned that fake news (as mis- and disinformation) exists, or that reality is so easily decoupled from our descriptions of it. It says quite a lot about the tautological dynamics of communication systems (of belief) that they are generally and only ever referentially anchored upon themselves.
A critical nexus: the assumption of truth as the lowest-energy level or ground-state, system attractor and natural telos of communication. Such beliefs are credible, plausible and compelling but are mistaken. Communication systems are proxy organic entities, maximally-oriented towards the reproduction of themselves and seek to prime their own self-entangled transmission media for existential continuity. The […]
In a distributed, ubiquitous information space, everything (including this brief paragraph) is in play. While it is true that complex communications systems can (and do) have many centers of gravity, some of the interesting considerations here orbit a fact that the ascendant networks and platforms of information transmission maximally persist as a function of replicability, […]
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