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politics

One Nation, Australia: Contagion Dynamics

When the ambient communication system is saturated with noise, speed, and compression, ideologies that minimise internal degrees of freedom propagate more easily, not because they are robust but because they repeat cleanly. They return in recognisable form, align with their own prior expressions, and therefore hold attention. Under these conditions, order is produced less by […]

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politics

Populism: Flirting with Disaster

Populism gains traction by pointing at real pressures: housing stress, cost-of-living anxiety, cultural dislocation, institutional distance, a sense that no one is steering. These are not imagined problems. They are the very real conditions that make people receptive to blunt answers and strong voices. The tragedy is that the tools populism offers to address these […]

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politics

Australian Democracy: One Country, Many Ways

Australia works because it stays balanced. Its democracy is not built on simple agreement, but on the disciplined interaction between different ways of seeing the world. Labor and Liberal are not just rival teams. Together, they form the smallest political structure capable of holding a complex society together. Two sides generate debate, correction, and restraint. […]

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Philosophy

Theory of Language and Communication

Formal Abstract This document presents a formal, process-based theory of language, information, and dynamic meaning systems. Communication, cognition, identity, legitimacy, and truth are treated not as static entities but as temporally constituted processes sustained through repetition, coupling, and feedback within distributed fields. A minimal axiom set grounded in acts, timing, coupling, recursion, variation, and emergent […]

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politics

Writing on Politics

Writing about contemporary politics, especially what is now unfolding globally and with particular intensity in the United States, has become an aesthetically risky and expressively constricted act. Insight itself is treated as partisan. Intelligence, systems thinking, and even basic factual literacy are read as “progressive” positions regardless of intent or content. This is not simply […]

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cybernetics

Field Logic and Semiotics

This essay advances a limited but precise claim: meaning in communicative systems depends on structured delay, and that delay is constitutive of causal relations rather than incidental to them. Where there is a point of emission and a point of reception, the signal that passes between them is not merely a connector. It participates in […]

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Philosophy

[01] Disinformation Dynamics: Unified Framework

Series preamble: this series of documents is an educated guess. I study complexity, communication, and culture. The underlying harmonic structure should be evident to anyone with a passing familiarity with physics, mathematics, or logic. Manifold dynamics provide a topological bridge to and through communication systems, and in some sense are those systems. Disinformation functions here […]

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Philosophy

[03] Disinformation Dynamics: Interdiction Operations

3.1 Measurement Philosophy Measurement in recursive harmonic systems does not isolate variables; it captures relationships. Every observation modifies what is observed, because communication systems are reflexive. Therefore, measurement itself must be designed as participation in the field—an act of modulation that respects feedback dynamics. The goal is not to determine truth but to detect phase […]

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Philosophy

[04] Disinformation Dynamics: Operational Framework

4.1 Overview Disinformation interdiction is not the elimination of falsehood but the rebalancing of systemic coherence. It operates at the level of phase relationships—how signals align and reinforce one another—rather than semantic truth. The objective is to restore dynamic equilibrium: sufficient synchrony for stability, sufficient noise for adaptability. The system must breathe. Interdiction therefore proceeds […]

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Philosophy

[06] Disinformation Dynamics: Simulation,  Forecasting, Adaptation

6.1 The Need for Predictive Reflexivity Static policy and reactive moderation fail because communication systems evolve faster than any predefined rule.Disinformation interdiction therefore requires predictive reflexivity—a capacity to anticipate systemic states by modelling their feedback structures. Forecasting in this framework is not prediction of content but simulation of phase evolution: how coherence, entropy, and recursivity […]