I observed a characteristically parochial performance from a politician on the morning news today. The topic of the Global Climate Strike was under analysis and the tired old excuses for workers and schoolchildren not attending the rallies and protests were wobbled around with rhetorical ineptitude. An argument was made for the importance of a strong…
Disentangling the Enigmatic Adversities of Socioeconomic Recursion
The distributed information systems which we experience as social, cultural, economic and cognitive (or technologically-mediated) reality are implicitly weighted towards the self-replication and reproduction of existing patterns and biases.
Cultivating Innovation
Sociological, psychological and economic systems are poorly optimised to cultivate or acknowledge the forms of innovation and creative thinking that their existence in the world depends upon.
Can anyone own the moon ?
If personal subjectivity is a reflection of an internalised concept of ownership and property, what happens if it turns out that neither individual identity nor notions of ownership are, beyond a very limited and historically or culturally contingent sense, actually real ?
Entrepreneurial Hubris in Silicon Valley
It is a gargantuan investment and leap of faith to assert, predict or seek to influence technological trajectories over a time scale of centuries.
Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least - the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
Structural Decompression
The convergence in one reference frame is simultaneously the divergence in many others...
On Technological Singularity, Digital Abundance and Knowing Everything
In the Brave New World of technologically-facillitated hyper-profits and extravagant digital interconnectivity, most of us are just products and revenue sources. There are only so many seats on the corporate Lear Jet of extreme affluence. The true costs of all of this mad rush into information-abundance and wealth-generation are not being rationally assessed...
Human Wasted
Human beings have become in some instances the excess product of their own methods of self-propagating economic and cultural continuity...
Retrospective: Uncivilised Economies
Impoverished individuals, groups and cultures are endlessly blamed for their own existential distress but the causes of such inequitable wealth distribution are functionally structural and endemically psychological in nature...
An Inversion of Useful Selves
Whoever you think you are, you are probably (also) actually something quite other than that internal self-representation you hold so close...
An Ethical Vacuum
Nothing quite extinguishes any mythology of accomplishment and pride in the achievements and sophistication of human civilisation than seeing an utterly isolated homeless person sleeping on a ramshackle mattress and amid their few ignominiously-bagged worldly belongings while early morning commuters rush to work around them...
