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Philosophy

The Profitable Failure of Civilisation: Why Understanding Changes Nothing

Civilisation has made its own destruction so profitable that its survival now constitutes a threat to the economy.

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Philosophy

The Reproduction of Authority: Cybernetics and Institutional Power at the Australian National University

I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.