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Philosophy politics

Spectacular Cruelty: Public Executions and Political Power

A civilisation that turns its moral deterioration into public spectacle reorganises the relationships through which political power is recognised, contested and reproduced, making cruelty both a symptom of its decline and a means of perpetuating it.

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cybernetics

pathological homeostasis

A political system that learns to survive and self-validate through conflict will eventually treat peace as the threat; dependency on conflict becomes intractable.