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culture

Revolutionary Fallacy ?

Sic semper tyrannis…

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culture

Student Debt: Paid Off

What else can this be but an embarrassment that a nation now hard-codes the impossibility of economic success into the methods required to obtain it ?

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culture

Cultural Systems and Useful Entropy

Even apparently useless phenomena usually have an implicit purpose or reason to exist. It just requires a little lateral thought to untangle the complexity a little…

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culture

A Liquid Logic and System of History

My problem is, and pretty much always has been, just how to introduce, articulate and successfully communicate new concepts of representation and comprehension when the paradigm and assumptive frameworks of conventional wisdom fight tooth and nail against novelty or deep (i.e. axiomatic) conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovation ?

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culture

Culture: Gothic Complexity

The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication.

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culture heuristics

Meta-Heuristics: solving the problem of problem-solving

Working under a holistic, meta-theoretical framework of “what is the central similarity or notionally gravitational and logical pivot ?” of explanatory systems introduces multiple considerations of Epistemology and Ontology…

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culture

WhatsApp: Communications Vectors and Political Momentum

Self-organising cultural, political and communications-system architectures tend to rapidly capitalise upon and exploit technical tool-sets, vectors or opportunities when they appear…

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culture

Virtual Machine: Sub-Cultures

I like the way that when Japanese do sub-culture, they don’t hold back or go anything like half-way…

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Philosophy

Unprovable Provenance

While it is true that no living person has ever proved that God does not exist, nor has any living person ever proved that unicorns do not exist…

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Organisation

Catastrophic Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy produces the preconditions for the intractable complexity of those problems to which it itself is aspirationally directed…

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business

An Art of Farming Emptiness

At a certain point, adaptive growth can be largely abstracted from (a) concrete or material means of wealth-generation…

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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.