The entities and artefacts we make "in our own image" include the abstractions and patterns through which we understand and organise the world and ourselves.
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive - it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
No One Owns Truth
There is no "best" idea, there are only "better" ones.
Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques.
Conflict as mandatory error of social self-replication
Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis.
Selfies as Memes, Memes as Cultural Selfies
Selfies are memes and memes are cultural selfies through which a logic and self-replication of the question of individual or cultural self-identity reproduces itself.
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.
Semantic Drift
The extent to which errors of replication are responsible for longue durée cultural, subjective and semantic metamorphosis remains an intriguing possibility...
A Cultural Logic
I do not think we should be at all surprised by the revelation that cultural processes and psychological processes, that depth and complexity on both ends of this interdependent spectrum are effectively two ends of the same waveform.
