Categories
Philosophy

Mr Savage and the Terms of Our Captivity

Our existential crisis lies in this entanglement: the relations through which we could create different, better, futures keep being recruited into the continuation of the arrangements that restrict them.

Categories
Philosophy

Lawfare and Institutional Power: Making Dissent Expensive

How lawfare converts institutional status and financial power into pressure that silences criticism and makes public disagreement prohibitively expensive.

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cybernetics

epistemic pyramid scheme

This is how a system built to produce knowledge becomes a system for reproducing the conditions under which its existing knowledge remains authoritative.