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cybernetics

Crime and Punishment: The Generative Structure of Law and Disorder

Crime and punishment are coupled systems that reproduce the epistemic distinction, differential diffusion and binding distance through which social order defines itself.

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Alien Anthropology

Countering Fake Brands

This issue of Fake Brands and commercial “knock-offs” represents interesting problem. These clearly exist on a spectrum that begins with the dodgy Rolex bought from a street vendor and ends with potentially life-threatening fake medicines. Most solutions appear to be retrospective, reactive and post facto attempts to influence behaviour or punish those purposefully profiting from […]

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culture

Human Tide

A clear and present burden of political and commercial “short-term-ism” is that it constantly displaces (its own) costs to the future.