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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.

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Philosophy

Games of Contemporary Scholasticism

Institutional scholasticism does not primarily exist to discover truth. It exists to reproduce itself. It operates through status hierarchies, reputational gating, and compliance rituals that slowly but efficiently select against intellectual risk. Advancement depends less on clarity, insight, or courage than on strategic alignment, calibrated language, and ritual citation. Academic publishing, the circulatory system of […]