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Alien Anthropology

The Great Unknown

It is only an immature psychological and cultural status which seeks certainty and completion in all things and in so doing, generates endless entropy and confusion. Science has no logical endpoint.

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culture

The Hollow Men

One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…

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culture Psychology

Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression

Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?

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art culture logic Philosophy

The Creativity of Cultural Erasure

Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.

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Alien Anthropology

Democracy and Authoritarianism are Strange Bedfellows

There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.

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Alien Anthropology

The Necessary Evolution of Difference and Conflict

Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.

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Philosophy

Rethinking Conflict

Coming conflicts will be won by those who can most effectively, efficiently, continuously and adaptively rebuild themselves and their ways of life through successful negotiation and engagement with the recombinatory logical evolution of information and energy from which biology, humanity, technology and civilisation have emerged.

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Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

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culture

Genocide: Facebook’s Inability to Manage it’s own Effect

Facebook has a genocide problem.

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Philosophy

Countering the Inordinate Power of the Big Technology Companies

Corporate power in the technology domain is a complex cartography but it is not indecipherable. It takes intelligence and subtlety to address the problem of autonomously self-propagating information systems that have grown too large, too fast and in all of this speed and runaway self-replication represent something of an atavistic return to a state of accelerated reproduction which in cells occurs in (or as) cancer.

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Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

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culture

Within You, Without You: the Computation of Material Culture

Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?