Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: media critique

Diminishing Returns

I am withdrawing from almost all U.S.-based digital subscriptions; soon, all. This is not a symbolic gesture or an act of ideological theatre. It is a practical decision grounded in observation. Platform governance is converging with corporate and political power into a single operational field, where economic alignment determines visibility, legitimacy, and survival. The architecture […]

Tags 2026, algorithmic censorship, algorithmic moderation, attention economy, civil liberties, cognitive freedom, communication systems, content suppression, corporate influence, corporate power, cultural hegemony, cultural power, cybernetic governance, data colonialism, decentralised media, democratic erosion, digital ethics, digital resistance, digital sovereignty, epistemic closure, free expression, independent publishing, information control, information ecosystems, informational autonomy, media consolidation, media critique, narrative control, network effects, platform capitalism, platform governance, platform monopolies, political economy, power concentration, speech regulation, surveillance capitalism, system collapse, techno politics, technology and society

Philosophy

Absurd Superficiality

The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]

Tags algorithmic amplification, attention economy, cognitive compression, communication systems, Complexity, cultural pathology, digital culture, epistemic collapse, field logic, information overload, media critique, sense making, social media, systems theory