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cybernetics

Cognitive Bandwidth and the Politics of Belief

Cognitive bandwidth becomes cultural destiny because the carrying capacity of technologically mediated communication systems exceeds the carrying capacity of the biological minds living inside them.

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communication

Arguing a Point: the Cost of Partisan Differential

Contemporary political partisanship is commonly perceived as noise, conflict, or moral failure, rather than as a structural dynamic. Within that same environment, some actors benefit from it because the system rewards the conversion of difference into attention, status, or power, creating incentives for intensification. Structurally, partisanship functions less as a disagreement to be resolved than […]