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life

Attention Economy, Dependent Meaning, and the Capture of Perception

Most of what commands attention now is not meaningful in any substantive sense. It is dependent meaning: signals that borrow significance from circulation, outrage, novelty, or proximity to power rather than from coherence, consequence, or truth. This hollowness is not accidental. It is structurally central to contemporary dissatisfaction, corruption, volatility, and political disorder. These conditions […]

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Philosophy

Peace Plan

It is a strange and quietly dangerous habit of our age to treat peace, language, and meaning as though they arrive fully formed at the end of history, fixed as semiotic anchors to be engineered, stabilised, and installed, rather than as fragile continuities that persist only because the relations that give them form are never […]

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communication Complexity Epistemology physics

On Equations, Art and Information Compression

I imagine that part of the beauty of an equation in physics lies in the sense in which it serves as an algorithmic information compression of the phenomena, system or relationship it describes…