The intransigent difficulty of obtaining a sufficiently concise, compelling, universally agreed-upon and resilient definition of intelligence sits somewhere on the same geometric arc or architecture of axiomatic assertion as does complexity and, indeed, life. If epistemological closure is demonstrably (ref. paradoxes of self-containment, among other things) impossible, intelligence both can and can not (!) be…
The Constancy and Enduring Paranoia of Digital Security Updates
Cyber security is now just a part of everyday life. Update, update, update... all this requires is a sufficiently entertaining marketing campaign to elaborate and celebrate the fulfilment of a life spent in the gamified Panopticon of endless technical paranoia and system updates; sitcoms and lifestyle gurus explaining the invaluable personal experience of incessant technical…
Libraries are Mirrors
This city... the morning sun rises as though summoned by the gently floating hot air balloons and here, the National Library of Australia is so wonderfully, poetically framed in representational space. This architecture - like some ancient Greek monument to a memory of the Gods and their dramas; but the only theatre here is that…
Unattainable You
You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world - there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.
The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques.
Fear of the Dark
Afraid of the Darkness that the Other and the Unknown represent, we inscribe this upon ourselves, into ourselves.
CRISPR Wars: The Inevitability of Technological Entropy ?
The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.
Quieting the Ego
Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.
The Cosmological and Computational Ties that Bind
What is it that binds the Cosmos to unified principles and patterns of physical laws and constants ?
The Outer Limits of Knowledge
Misunderstanding the world in fundamental ways, as we generally do, we more often (and collectively) seek continuity and security in those things which are only very rarely able to provide them...
Continuity, Circularity and Aspirational Completeness
It doesn't actually matter from within a labyrinth of reflections that all that is being seen is an endless repetition of sameness and continuity: it only takes a pair of mirrors to emulate infinity.
Concept Creep and the Necessity of Organisational Ambiguity
PTSD and psychological trauma remain empirical facts to be disentangled and negotiated through tactful intervention but the hyper-medicalisation of that knowledge and administrative reach into an individual's experience foundationally inflates the expected contours and probable expressions of those pathologies.
