Tag: disorder

Authoritarian Vacuum and the Chaos that Follows

Post author By G
Post date June 16, 2020
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Which begs the question: if individuals tend on average towards a path of least resistance and select (or become selected by) a singular – or authoritarian – narrative interpretation and filter of their world, why is it that these systems in which there is no (or at least a sudden vacuum of) overarching meta-narrative find […]

Tags authoritarian, chaos, conflict, control, disorder, narrative, systems, war

culture

Things fall apart…

Perhaps “the centre cannot hold” because there is no centre. Chaos and disorder are far more the native state of material (thermodynamic, dissipative) facts than are the projected order and control around which we reflexively and aspirationally self-validate. Curious, indeed, (and under one perspective) that everything emerging out of the complexity sciences suggests that it […]

Tags adversarial, chaos, civilisation, civilization, Complexity, conflict, confusion, death, decay, disassembly, disease, disorder, entropy, fear, ideology, pandemic, partisan, physics, politics, poverty, riot, suffering, thermodynamics, TV, war

Alien Anthropology

Crown of Thorns: this gathering storm

Post author By G
Post date March 23, 2020
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This nauseating fear and gathering storm, the manifestation of an unacknowledged, unknown horror: our bodies were never impermeable, our minds – never infallible. The juggling, shuffling and dancing patterns of information and entropy from which we emerged – these were never some distant Otherness and isolated (or tamed) danger and threat of difference, of distance. […]

Tags civilisation, Coronavirus, COVID19, death, decay, discord, disorder, dystopia, economy, entropy, epidemiology, escape, fear, horror, information, life, nature, pandemic, pattern, plague, symmetry, terror, virus, words, writing

systems

The Shadows of Entropy

It is a truth almost universally known but rarely, if ever, acknowledged that the strengths and the values of our world are simultaneously its weakness and qualitative (as much as quantitative) poverty. Contemporary communications systems have, for instance, been truly wonderous – they have brought us all closer together through near-instaneous text, voice and video […]

Tags blindspot, catastrophe, climate change, Complexity, disorder, economy, entropy, Global, information, politics, technology, thermodynamics

culture

Europe in Disarray

Negotiating the accelerating metamorphosis of systemic change is a problem of global salience which appears rather poorly catered for by the leviathan of legacy organisational and heuristic solutions.

Tags analysis, anarchy, chaos, Complexity, disorder, Europe, law, order, policy, strategic

culture

Disassembling Democracy

The actual rate of accelerating technological and organisational complexity has been outpacing administrative and hierarchical aptitude for some time.