Categories
Psychology

immaturity: why adults never really grow up

Psychological maturity does not replace immaturity. It incorporates it, organises it, and learns how to live through it.

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Philosophy

consciousness and the human world

Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.

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politics

political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person

Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.

Categories
Philosophy

why identity is not as simple as A = A

A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.

Categories
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.

Categories
Philosophy

enlightenment

Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.

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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.

Categories
life

social distortion: disaffection

Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.

Categories
Philosophy

continuum: if unity, then…

Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.

Categories
Philosophy

reality

Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.

Categories
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.

Categories
cybernetics

continuity precedes truth

Disinformation is not the opposite of information, but one of the ways communication organises uncertainty into meaning. Its deeper structure belongs less to politics than to the philosophical problem of how truth, coherence, and identity emerge at all.