The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Tag: language
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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