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Philosophy

Captain Fractal and the Machinery of Human Stupidity

Captain Fractal examines how political identities, media algorithms and institutional resistance to change reproduce conflict and instability.

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Philosophy

The Value of Nothing: Captain Fractal and the Price of Everything

Extreme wealth preserves its own stability by shifting costs onto everyone else. Captain Fractal explores why even billionaires cannot escape the physics of their own existence.

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cybernetics

Das Wesen der Sprache: Differenz, Verzögerung und die Entstehung von Bedeutung

Sprache bewahrt ihren Zusammenhang nicht trotz Verschiebung, Verzögerung und Ungewissheit, sondern gerade durch sie. Bedeutung wird innerhalb sich wandelnder Beziehungen fortwährend neu hervorgebracht und bleibt über Veränderungen hinweg bestehen.

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cybernetics

L’essence du langage : différence, délai et formation du sens

Le langage ne conserve pas sa cohérence malgré les décalages, les délais et l’incertitude, mais grâce à eux. Le sens se reconstitue continuellement dans les relations et persiste à travers leurs transformations.

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cybernetics

conflict, coherence, and the logic of recurrence

What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.

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cybernetics

à plus tard

Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.

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cybernetics

technology: we have a problem…

Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.