It was a poor family’s living room, perhaps middle-aged in its furnishings—brown vinyl couch, lace curtains, the dull hum of the refrigerator cutting through the silence. Count Dracula stood in the doorway, narrating the long drift of history to the wife of the man he had just turned, consumed as undead. “I knew the future […]
The world’s machinery no longer runs on production or belief but on the circulation of insecurity. Each institution converts unease into its own currency of legitimacy: markets price risk, governments legislate threat, media amplify anxiety into attention, and technology encodes volatility as data. What appears as chaos is the deep structure—a dynamic equilibrium in which […]
Tyranny is not an aberration, it is a statistical phase of collective system dynamics. Choice persists, and ethics matter, but the options available are constrained by effectively entropic structural conditions that favour transmissibility over nuance. In turbulence, blunt and repetitive signals spread most efficiently, and power arises as both the effect of this modulation and […]
The watchmaker sat in the lamp’s circle, brass fragments glinting like small planets in orbit. On the wall his blueprint pressed black lines into paper with the weight of conviction. It suggested—without saying outright—that life could be pinned, turned, wound into motion. He bent close, fitting each hinge, coaxing each spring into order. For a […]
History shows that evil is often less a grand design than the byproduct of ordinary negligence. Hannah Arendt called it the “banality of evil” — Eichmann sending millions to death not out of demonic hatred but bureaucratic obedience. Psychologists like Stanley Milgram demonstrated how everyday people, given orders, would administer lethal shocks rather than resist […]
The machines are getting louder. They don’t think; they clank. People call it “intelligence” because the marketing is good, because the numbers are big, because nobody likes to be left out of the next gold rush. But clankers aren’t wise. They don’t know what they’re doing. They recombine, they predict, they imitate. Useful enough for […]
We didn’t build technology to serve us; we built it to be served. Every notification, every post, every frictionless interaction is not the system making life easier—it’s the system making you easier to interpret. You aren’t just using the platform; you are formatting yourself into it. Your choices, your moods, your attention spans are being […]
It’s an interesting thought that the countless electrochemical systems that sustain life and experience are in some mischievously self-orchestrating sense far smarter than we are. Our own minds do not encompass biological complexity, they are a subset of it. As for artificial intelligence, we should not let its utility and imminent ubiquity deceive us into […]
I wonder if a reflex to identify the where and the how of consciousness might not necessarily, if inadvertently, render the what inaccessibly unintelligible. Distributed (as emergent) system properties inhabit their transmission media in a counter-intuitive way. Yes – where, how and what are all different perspectives on the same abstract conceptual entity but the […]
Technological metamorphosis tends by variously unacknowledged or linguistically and cognitively impermeable mechanisms to reproduce precisely the correct kind of uncertainty and communication or media system turbulence to assure the continuing tenure of those technologies and their logical descendants. It is reproduction, however, possessing an emergent variation sufficient to breed resilience as unscripted existential assurance.
Is artificial intelligence going to destroy social media? Would it even matter if it might not also destroy us in the process? These are fractal tesseracts of linguistic narcissism as wheels within wheels of technologically mediated autopoiesis. Will we be able to see anything outside the half-mirrored sphere of reflective, reflexively dopamine-boosting narrative self-engagement? There […]
What I think we might all often fail to understand, seduced as we so easily are by the constructive discontinuity of such biomimetic entropy, is that this is not the product of some alien as Artificial (or Machine and Algorithmic) Intelligence anywhere near so much as it is the reflexive abstraction and unbounded metamorphosis of […]
Daedelus Kite 