The curious thing about the psychology of taboos is that (generally speaking) the more a thing is prohibited, the more psychological currency and cultural value it (inversely) acquires, and - consequently - the more the associated behaviours self-propagate. We might identify this counterintuitive displacement of value, meaning and fascination (or attention) as semiotic elasticity.
Technological Overextension: Security, Entropy, Logical Hyperinflation
The accelerating hyper-inflation of information and communications technology networks and systems is an overextended structural entity. The primary reason it does not immediately collapse back upon itself is the existence of uncertainty, useful ambiguity and logical entropy. The more components and logical relationships we have, the more those systems themselves generate further artefacts, abstractions and…
Culture and Mind: Surface, Depth, Continuum
Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.
Within You, Without You: the Computation of Material Culture
Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?
An Inversion of Useful Selves
Whoever you think you are, you are probably (also) actually something quite other than that internal self-representation you hold so close...
Inside Out
Do we have arguments or do arguments have us ? Our sense of privileged ownership of those contexts in which we find ourselves may be only half-true. Our individual expressions of conflict are just as often pressure-release valves for broader cultural energies and historical forces of which we and our antagonists are merely microcosms. Don't…
