Disinformation is not only false content. It is recurrence under pressure: cultural self-interference accelerated by platforms that reward compression, repetition, and volatility.
Tag: political volatility
Across much of the world, political communication has become increasingly volatile, distrustful, reactive, and emotionally saturated. This is usually interpreted as a moral or ideological failure within populations themselves, yet at least part of the phenomenon may instead arise from the underlying geometry of large-scale communication systems whose structures increasingly reward reproducibility, emotional intensity, and […]
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The Mad King
The Mad King is usually treated as a personality problem. History supplies familiar figures. Erratic rulers, impulsive leaders, volatile decision makers whose behaviour appears to bend events. Yet this framing may be backwards. Instability at the top of power hierarchies may emerge not from individual psychology but from the structure of complex social systems themselves, […]
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No Good War
There is a familiar habit among commentators and observers to reach backward into history whenever the present becomes frightening, as though the archive might reassure us that the machinery of civilisation has seen worse and survived. Maybe it has. But what we are dealing with now looks less like a familiar historical episode and more […]
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