Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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The Human Condition

Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]

Alien Anthropology

The Machines, the Mirrors and the Emptiness of Self

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Post date Jan 9, 2020
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The image in the mirror of psychological self-reflexivity is the machine, the rational, the explicable and the logic which has through so many, many iterations become what we now recognise as information and communications technology. An aspirational aptitude towards anticipatory self-explanation is always, perhaps, only ever going to appear or manifest as the percolated surface […]

Tags Complexity, emptiness, enigma, incompleteness, information, jacques lacan, lacan, logic, mirror, modernity, Philosophy, physics, Psychology, self, subjectivity, technology

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Taxonomies, Marmalade and Technology

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Post date Oct 20, 2019
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Taxonomies, the branching logic of binary algorithms and decision-trees that – as though by the stealth of cultural (and commercial) entrainment and that generally unwitting human self-obsession which rarely notices that the rising tide and hyper-inflating menu of choice has become anything but an augmentation of freedom – have flooded us with logical paths and […]

Tags cognition, culture, information, life, Linnaeus, modernity, taxonomy, technology