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politics

Meaningless Political Babble: Communication at Scale

At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.

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cybernetics

Platform Populism: The Geometry of Volatility

Across much of the world, political communication has become increasingly volatile, distrustful, reactive, and emotionally saturated. This is usually interpreted as a moral or ideological failure within populations themselves, yet at least part of the phenomenon may instead arise from the underlying geometry of large-scale communication systems whose structures increasingly reward reproducibility, emotional intensity, and […]