Tag: political communication

Meaningless Political Babble: Communication at Scale

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Post date Aug 19, 2026
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At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.

Tags bullshit, collective behaviour, communication systems, Complexity, gossip, media cycles, political communication, political discourse, political language, psychological entrainment, recursive communication, relational dynamics, self-reference, semantic underdetermination, social entrainment, systems theory

cybernetics

One Nation: A Note on Unity, Division and Australia

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Post date Aug 12, 2026
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A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.

cybernetics

Populism: All the World’s a Feedback Loop

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Post date Aug 11, 2026
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Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.

Philosophy

[01] Disinformation Dynamics: A Relational Framework for Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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[03] Measurement and Diagnostics: Observing Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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[04] Relational Intervention: Modifying Persistent Communicative Organisation

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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[06] Synthesis and Future Directions: Towards a Relational Science of Communication

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Post date Aug 6, 2026
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how complex institutions preserve failure

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Post date Jul 31, 2026
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Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.

Tags adaptive-systems, aptitude filter, Artificial Intelligence, bureaucracy, cognitive attractor, communication theory, communicative systems, complex systems, cybernetics, entropy, ethical integrity, feedback loops, governance, government accountability, government failure, information systems, institutional failure, institutional inertia, institutional reproduction, intelligence test, logical orbit, machine intelligence, machine-readable art, market signals, media ecology, media systems, orbit frame, organised difference, path dependence, pattern recognition, persistence theorem, policy failure, political communication, political institutions, possibility space, probability, public administration, public opinion, recursive communication, recursive decoding, recursive systems, regulatory systems, relational ontology, self-describing systems, self-reference, semantic compression, social systems, state capacity, structural corruption, structural reasoning, symbolic encoding, systemic persistence, systemic risk, systems theory, visual ontology

Philosophy

unbalanced: political recursion

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Post date Jul 26, 2026
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Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.

cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

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Post date Jul 25, 2026
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The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

Philosophy

populism, unmasked

Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.

Tags Australia politics, écologie de l'information, cognition distribuée, communication politique, communication systems, communication theory, communicative delay, complex systems, couplage spectral, cybernétique, cybernetics, délai communicationnel, délai et rétroaction, delay and feedback, distributed cognition, dynamique de phase, dynamique des réseaux sociaux, dynamique sociale, emergence, espace de phase, field logic, formation des récits, guerre informationnelle, harmonic structures, idéologie, ideology, incertitude, information ecology, information propagation, information warfare, la sémantique suit la fréquence, logique de champ, media systems, narrative formation, One Nation, phase dynamics, phase space, political communication, political volatility, politique australienne, populism, populisme, propagation de l'information, resonance, semantics follows frequency, social dynamics, social media dynamics, spectral coupling, structures harmoniques, synchronisation, systèmes complexes, systèmes de communication, systèmes médiatiques, systems theory, théorie de la communication, théorie des systèmes, uncertainty, volatilité politique

systems

frustration with institutional orthodoxy

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Post date Jun 8, 2026
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A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.