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cybernetics

Apollo and Daphne

Symmetry, anti-symmetry, and the orbit of desire If art has any enduring value, it lies in the way it makes structure visible. Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne does not just illustrate a myth. It renders a relational geometry: two frames locked in a shared field, unable to close without erasing themselves. The sculpture holds a single […]

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Psychology systems

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.

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art

The Dissociative Art of Leonardo Vargas

The art of Leonardo Vargas invokes the ghost of Francis Bacon’s disturbing vision but arguably finds itself arriving in an altogether different aesthetic solution to a representation of human identity and the psychological dissonance of individuation.