An Organisational Uncanny Valley
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. Continue reading An Organisational Uncanny Valley
Tag: metamorphosis
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation. Continue reading Cumulative Cultural Evolution
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. Continue reading The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
No One Owns Truth
There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones. Continue reading No One Owns Truth
Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time. Continue reading Encoding Culture
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems. Continue reading Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques. Continue reading The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
