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cybernetics

why destructive identities take hold

Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.

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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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Philosophy

selected essays: systems, communication and contemporary life

Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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cybernetics

selling subscription selves

We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.

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Science

the conspicuous absence in science

Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.