Mental health issues are often asserted as neurochemical or physiological malfunction, located in the individual. Yet this framing conceals how distress emerges from larger social systems, which depend upon gradients of exclusion and disaffection to function. Just as unemployment is not an error but a structural feature of employment markets, sorrow and psychic fracture are […]
Context: AI must be developed responsibly to improve mental health outcomes It is a delicate and potentially dangerous matter when self-validating commercial incentives and their accelerated technical metamorphoses have taken the center of surveilling, assessing and aspirationally recalibrating human experience in this way. I quite often wonder about the compound, composite ironies of a world […]
Context: Psychedelic Therapy Is Poised To Create A Revolution In Mental Health, Can VR Accelerate It? It is worth noting, also, that in traditional cultural – often shamanic – contexts these chemicals were used in reference frame of religious or spiritual engagement that positively shaped the perceptions and experiences of those who took them. Beyond […]
Context: Oakland, Portland sue over use of federal agents at protests A generally irreducible property of pathological ideologies, context and partisan-agnostic – in as much as any assertion can ever now be, is that they work industriously (and just as often unconsciously) towards the recreation of the circumstances that validate their insecurity and the actions […]
Have you ever considered that the myriad sorrows and insecurities we all share are really not ours at all?
Daedelus Kite 