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cybernetics

The Architecture of Absence

A strong current in modern thought still treats things as if they exist first, complete in themselves, and only later enter into relation with other things. The individual. The institution. The nation-state. The market. The technological platform. These are often imagined as discrete objects possessing internal coherence, as though persistence were generated primarily from within […]

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cybernetics

Managed Peace

Managed peace is the hard, ongoing work of keeping real conflict from tipping a tightly coupled world into outcomes it cannot survive.

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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.