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On the Structural Limits of Political Language

Post author By G
Post date Jan 10, 2026
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Victor Klemperer’s The Language of the Third Reich was written under conditions that were materially, professionally, and existentially constraining. As a Jewish academic in Nazi Germany, he was excluded from public life, subject to surveillance, and deprived of institutional protection. The book did not emerge as a theoretical project but as a record: observations accumulated […]

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technology

Divided

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Post date Jan 5, 2026
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Technologically mediated communication intensifies what language has always done: it isolates, divides, and distances us from one another, and from ourselves, as a necessary precondition for meaningful communicative experience to arise at all. Given the nature of the world, I carry a quiet regret at not having known more people more fully, even while understanding […]

cybernetics

Exclusionary Tactics

I lost a great deal of time mistaking other people’s expectations for responsibilities I was obliged to meet. Not because they were explicit, but because they were ambient. They arrived as tone, as assumption, as the quiet sense that something was already required before any choice was made. Quietly, over years, I volunteered to process […]

cybernetics

Semantic Tesseract

We are caught, largely unwittingly, inside a tesseract of relationally incomplete meaning systems. Not because reality is fragmenting, but because closure is now being achieved locally, cheaply, and without reconciliation across the wider field. What feels like disorientation is not loss of sense, but the proliferation of internally coherent partial worlds, each stabilised just enough […]