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cybernetics

The Narrowing of Possibility: Technology, Conformity and Civilisational Fragility

Our extraordinary technological and expressive abundance conceals a narrowing of possibility, as the systems rewarding innovation and success make civilisation increasingly fragile.

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cybernetics

Yes, We’re All Individuals

Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.

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Philosophy

crackpot optics

Unpopular ideas are not always wrong. Sometimes they simply fail to flatter the machine.