This contemporary information and communications technology environment provides a rich and fertile testbed for observing, borrowing and repurposing concepts and methods of influence and persuasion-for-effect.
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Out of Context
Taken out of context (or explicit authorial intent), anything can appear (or be construed as) false.
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Ideological Entropy
Where intellectual or ethical bankruptcy is the pivot upon which any untenable political assertion or associated narrative rests, an overinvestment in faulty reasoning becomes something of an inevitability.
The influence of popular communications and media is an effect measured by the relative simplicity of the associated communication method.
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Representational Relativity
Does the method encoded within the representational cultural artefacts of an era indicate a way in which that broader cultural moment can be interpreted or understood ?
What is it that binds the Cosmos to unified principles and patterns of physical laws and constants ?
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A Computational Universe ?
Can the Universe be said to be computational ? Algorithmic ? Can distantly-connected parts of a unified physical totality really manifest computation as we currently understand it ?
Countering stupid ideas proves to be a matter of some subtlety and intelligence…
You could be mistaken for believing that the primary public narratives and political engagements of our era are dominated by simpletons and misanthropes…
In the sphere of information replication and mass communication, those messages which most succinctly and concisely convey meaning tend to be those which are most successful in self-propagation, regardless of the relationship of those messages to truth or fact.
There is no way of proving that you have obtained the most concise, accurate or irreducibly essential pattern or theory from which any sufficiently (i.e. non-trivially) complex pattern or sequence can be reproduced…
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Disassembling Democracy
The actual rate of accelerating technological and organisational complexity has been outpacing administrative and hierarchical aptitude for some time.
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