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cybernetics

The Lost Opportunity of Cybernetics

I was a student at the School of Cybernetics. I completed the Master’s in 2022 and began a PhD in 2023, before leaving for reasons of personal health and what I experienced as institutional difficulty accommodating unconventional forms of creative thought. The Master’s was challenging, but much of it was also revision for things I […]

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Philosophy

Bad Moon Rising: The Statistical Field of Power

The statistical field is already acting before the subject appears as a moral interpreter. This is the part capitalism prefers not to see, because capitalism tells its favourite story backwards: the individual wants, chooses, competes, acquires, rises, fails, deserves. But the field has already moved first. Exposure precedes intention. Repetition precedes belief. Scarcity, status, threat, […]

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Philosophy

Pepper: softly spoken lies

There is a line in Pepper by the Butthole Surfers that lands almost casually: you never know just how you look through other people’s eyes. The song drifts through arbitrary violence, strange lives, and unresolved fragments, people moving through events that feel coherent from within but unsettling from outside. That line shifts the frame. It […]

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politics

Antithesis Trap

Identity formation requires antithesis. In the United States, political coherence has long been organised around opposition: liberty against tyranny, democracy against monarchy, capitalism against communism, freedom against control. These oppositions carved boundaries that stabilised national identity, generated purpose, and coordinated collective action. Opposition was not incidental. It was structural. Without it, American identity would have […]