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culture

Mediated Genuflection: Pointless Pontification

Self-propagating linguistic methods, full of culturally recursive sound and fury; signifying nothing…

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culture

Spelling Bees and the Necessary Logic of Normative Linguistic Labyrinths

The normative is always also the reproduction of the culturally self-reproductive and useful; the mundane carelessly shrouds the profound and transparently un-hidden secret of cultural, logical self-replication.

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culture

Latency

The act of writing is the creation of the concept and idea, the production of a thought in stored form as potential energy…

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Philosophy

Circular

“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:

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culture

Aesthetics, Language, History

It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]

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communication Philosophy

Communication: The Problem

The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein identified some interesting problems of language. Language is a logical system through which we communicate. Language is also that through which we very often fail to understand what is being conveyed to us, that is – it is that through which we fail to communicate clearly…