Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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Civilisation: Diary of a Madman

Post author By G
Post date Sep 1, 2026
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A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.

cybernetics

How Language Shapes Human Thought, Identity and Behaviour

Post author By G
Post date Jul 29, 2026
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Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, behaviour, communication, cybernetics, human agency, identity, language, large language-models, linguistics, philosophy of language, systems theory, thought

cybernetics

Technocratic Tyrrany

We use technologies that also use us. Over time, methods are formalised into metrics, metrics are stabilised into categories of meaning, and tools designed to assist begin to define which actions are recognised as valid. What once supported activity becomes background infrastructure. The tools move to the centre. Human experience no longer anchors them; it […]

cybernetics

Modulating Power

A political system doesn’t shed its skin and emerge as something new when it flips from “democracy” to “autocracy,” from “left” to “right,” or from “inside” to “outside.” It shifts phase into another register of the same underlying forces—self-interests, fears, incentives, and ambitions. At the core of this self-interest is an essentially empty and insubstantial, […]