The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
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Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
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adaptation: fixing aussie politics
There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.
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aristotle’s egg
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
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strategic incompetence
When organisations confuse confidence with competence, wealth with wisdom, and power with understanding, incompetence is no longer simply a failure of leadership but becomes one of its preferred production methods.
Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.
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The Lost Opportunity of Cybernetics
I was a student at the School of Cybernetics. I completed the Master’s in 2022 and began a PhD in 2023, before leaving for reasons of personal health and what I experienced as institutional difficulty accommodating unconventional forms of creative thought. The Master’s was challenging, but much of it was also revision for things I […]
The statistical field is already acting before the subject appears as a moral interpreter. This is the part capitalism prefers not to see, because capitalism tells its favourite story backwards: the individual wants, chooses, competes, acquires, rises, fails, deserves. But the field has already moved first. Exposure precedes intention. Repetition precedes belief. Scarcity, status, threat, […]
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