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After Trump

Post author By G
Post date Jan 13, 2026
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If the United States survives Trump, there is a genuine possibility of reconstruction, but only because damage exposes the relationships that mattered and brings hidden dependencies into the open, revealing how the system was actually held together. The damage being inflicted is real and severe, economic and political at once. Disruption to institutions, markets, and […]

Tags adaptive governance, applied systems theory, authoritarian governance, authority and force, cognitive diversity, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, complexity and democracy, complexity theory, coordination without central command, cybernetic governance, cybernetics, decentralised coordination, democratic resilience, distributed intelligence, economic reconstruction, emergence, feedback loops, field logic, governance systems, holism, institutional collapse, institutional rebuilding, learning systems, legitimacy and power, non-linear dynamics, performative governance, phase delay, policy failure, political cybernetics, political economy, political systems analysis, post-crisis reconstruction, reconstruction politics, resilience theory, second-order cybernetics, signal and noise, social cohesion, spectacle politics, system failure modes, systems collapse, systems learning, systems resilience, systems theory, Trump, Trump politics, Trump presidency, worker-centered reconstruction

cybernetics

Conflict: Metaphysics of Non-Closure

Post author By G
Post date Jan 11, 2026
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Conflict and competitive adversarialism are not necessarily moral failures or aberrations. They are contingent, historically acquired, culturally entrained mechanisms by which complex cognitive, cultural, and communicative systems reliably differentiate, learn, and reproduce themselves over time. These mechanisms arise because complexity does not form around completeness, nor does it arise from closure, certainty, or final resolution. […]

Tags abstraction and control, adaptive coherence, adaptive-systems, ambiguity tolerance, attention economy, authoritarian dynamics, boundary formation, cognitive load, collective psychology, collective sensemaking, communicative systems, complex systems, conflict escalation, conflict resolution, conflict theory, control theory, cultural evolution, cultural pathology, cybernetics, decision-making under uncertainty, difference and opposition, dissociation, emergence, entropy and order, Epistemology, ethics of conflict, feedback instability, feedback loops, gender and control, governance systems, governance under complexity, historical contingency, identity formation, ideological rigidity, information ecology, institutional failure, language and power, logic and limits, manosphere, masculinity and power, media systems, metaphysics of non-closure, moral psychology, neural entrainment, non-closure dynamics, non-orientable systems, non-violence theory, orbit dynamics, peace theory, peacebuilding, phase lag, phase space, philosophy of conflict, philosophy of logic, physics metaphors in philosophy, political psychology, political systems analysis, populism, post-conflict systems, power relations, psychological insecurity, resilience theory, second-order cybernetics, self and other, semantics and meaning, signal delay, social cohesion, social systems, steering systems, steering under uncertainty, strategic complexity, structural incompleteness, structural violence, systemic continuity, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems theory, technological mediation, thermodynamics of social systems, topology and geometry, uncertainty, Undecidability, war and peace, z-plane analysis

cybernetics

Field Logic and Semiotics

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Post date Jan 10, 2026
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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 […]

Tags algorithmic governance, attention economy, authoritarian language, boundaries and systems, causality in politics, communication collapse, communication fields, communication systems, complex adaptive systems, conflict semiotics, control and coordination, control society, coordination vs adaptability, crisis governance, cybernetics, delay theory, democratic fragility, differentiation theory, entropy and governance, environment and system, feedback loops, field logic, identity and difference, ideology and language, information and power, institutional dynamics, language and violence, language under pressure, meaning and causality, meaning production, media ecology, non-coincidence, organizational theory, phase difference, platform politics, policy communication, political acceleration, political communication, political entropy, political systems analysis, political theory, post-linguistic semiotics, power and meaning, pre-symbolic meaning, propaganda dynamics, recursive systems, self-reference, semantic compression, semantic degradation, semiotics, sign theory, signal and receiver, signal propagation, strategic communication, structural entropy, structured delay, systems collapse, systems theory, technocracy critique, uncertainty displacement, war and language, war systems analysis

politics technology

The Engine of Tyranny

Blame draws breath. Inhale the fear of other people. Exhale the accusation that keeps the fear alive. Each cycle promises control—naming enemies, drawing boundaries, standing strong—but strength here is a mask. What passes for rebellion only generates new codes, new rituals, new obligations. Rules always return, harsher and more brittle, precisely because they are denied. […]