Why do political movements become trapped in the conflicts that hold them together, even when those conflicts threaten to destroy them?
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What Is Political Identity?
Tag: polarisation
Le populisme ne dépend pas uniquement de ceux qui l’exploitent. Les systèmes de communication favorisent déjà les mécanismes qui amplifient la division, la défiance et l’instabilité politique.
This is the triumphal stagnancy of technological overreach: extraordinary technical acceleration coupled to an increasingly repetitive behavioural repertoire.
Communication converges locally while preserving uncertainty globally. Temporary centres stabilise meaning, a wider field remains generative rather than resolved.
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The Middle Earth war continues…
The strange thing about prolonged conflict is not merely that it destroys. It reorganises perception. After enough cycles of outrage, retaliation, spectacle, counter-spectacle, sanctions, declarations, precision strikes, televised rubble, algorithmic tribalism, and strategic ambiguity, entire populations begin navigating reality through symbolic compression rather than direct experience. The war ceases to be geographically localised and instead […]
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Alignment
It has probably always been the case that seeking respite from the endless surge of unhinged political stupidity feels futile, exasperating, and frightening. Watching poorly understood belief systems grind on, reproducing themselves through humanity as distributed patterns of alignment within the communicative field rather than arising from deliberate, individual choice, is unsettling. The fear comes […]
Imagine a crowd of fireflies. Each blinks on its own rhythm, yet over time many begin to flash together. The spectacle is mesmerizing, but beneath the beauty lies a puzzle: if they all blink at precisely the same instant, the individuality of each vanishes into a single, undifferentiated pulse. This isn’t just a curiosity of […]
Ideology is a tool, a technology of descriptive (i.e. algorithmic) information compression and generalised (over-)simplification through which complex realities and observed facts are rendered comprehensible. Decisions, evaluations and strategic planning for continuity (of self, of organisations, of civilisation) are facilitated by compression. Having cultivated or procedurally-defined the conceptual boundaries and adaptive grammars of such systems […]
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Online: Political Polarisation ?
The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…
