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Repeats

The same neurotic insecurities recur: pathological closure of language, minds, borders, and culture, converging into a perfect storm of radical ideology, technocratic overreach, and blind, arrogant greed.

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language

Symbolic Traffic

Language is a game in which winning, or apparent success, is characterised, celebrated, and sustained by the relational value of tokens within it. What actually wins is the communication system itself. Human projects, without exception, are functions of belief within language, of language. Success is the generation of more language. Wealth, politics, and sociocultural dominance […]