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Wiener–Khinchin theorem

The Wiener–Khinchin theorem describes a quiet inevitability: when a system repeats itself, even imperfectly, that repetition condenses into structure. Time leaves a trace. Signals that return, echo, or correlate with their own past do not merely accumulate; they reorganise into a spectrum, a distribution of emphasis and weight. What looks like flux from within time […]

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Spectral Coupling

In communicative systems, coherence and meaning are not imposed upon rhythm—they are rhythm. Spectral coupling describes how oscillations across communicative fields synchronise, producing the shared periodicities that we experience as understanding. Patterns of delay, resonance, and amplitude alignment constitute the grammar beneath language—the field’s temporal architecture of sense. To communicate is to phase-lock; to mean […]

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Populism

What we are dealing with is not primarily a moral or semantic crisis, even though it is experienced that way. Planetary-scale communication systems behave like physical systems with dense feedback and high throughput: they develop statistical biases toward states that reproduce the conditions of their own continuation. These systems have ontic reality—that is, they are […]

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Service Delivery: Delay Is the Control Parameter

Executive summary Delay is not a flaw to be engineered away. It is the control parameter that sets a system’s operating frequency. Most complex organisational and institutional service delivery systems tend to fail when their timing is misaligned with the realities they are intended to regulate. That misalignment is rarely visible as a single “slow […]