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cybernetics

epistemic pyramid scheme

This is how a system built to produce knowledge becomes a system for reproducing the conditions under which its existing knowledge remains authoritative.

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Philosophy

Diagnostic Minimalism: Global Communication Systems

Diagnostic minimalism is the necessary opening move in any serious encounter with a communications system that looks impossibly complex and yet, because of that same complexity, repeatedly falls back into rudimentary behaviour; before adding theory, metaphor, or moral posture, one subtracts, removes inherited ontological furniture, suspends the reflex to personalise what is structural, and asks […]