Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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unbalanced: political recursion
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Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
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Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism claims to see outward, yet its deepest capture is inward. Any system that grounds authority in exhaustive data collection must internalise its own apparatus. The observer becomes the most observed entity in the field. As capture intensifies, freedom contracts. Control architectures require constant calibration and escalation, growing brittle, paranoid, and self-consuming. Power built […]
Large institutional systems do not merely maintain narratives about what they are doing or why they are doing it. They stabilise meta-procedures: how statements are produced, validated, circulated, and sanctioned, because at scale the reasons matter less than the repeatability of the process. These methods become the true object of protection because they allow coordination […]
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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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Which Philosophers Matter?
At a relatively recent “reunion” event, I noticed that the primary social process with which people were engaged was the negotiation and confirmation of facts, measurements, names, identities and dates. They were all, in essence, reconstructing a network graph of personal histories as effective coordinate systems by and through which to render their shared experience […]
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