An unremitting curiosity of human psychology and culture is that, from about the time - perhaps of the Industrial Revolution (?) - when we acquired a degree of distributed and self-conscious awareness of the extent and consequence of our own procedural and developmental technological progress, each significant iteration has been regarded as the end of…
Crazy Circles: Life’s Game of Chance
On a summer Saturday road trip, listening to a song ("Crazy Circles") by old rock band Bad Company and the lyrics caught me mid-thought on a topic of entropy and political power: "Life is just a game of chance." While it is true that life is fundamentally random and the large-scale statistical drift into patterns…
The Strangest Thing: A Labyrinth of Words and Meanings
It is the strangest thing. Words are sounds, symbols and patterns of electrical energy inside brains. They are abstractions, generated from the shared world of our experience but not fundamentally dependent upon it. The words we use invoke the thoughts and concepts or images with which we think and understand the world we share. The…
Countering the Inordinate Power of the Big Technology Companies
Corporate power in the technology domain is a complex cartography but it is not indecipherable. It takes intelligence and subtlety to address the problem of autonomously self-propagating information systems that have grown too large, too fast and in all of this speed and runaway self-replication represent something of an atavistic return to a state of accelerated reproduction which in cells occurs in (or as) cancer.
Quieting the Ego
Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.
Cognitive and Technological Hyper-extension: Why Worry ?
As technologies and hybrid technology-and-human systems continuously insert themselves into our workflows and thought patterns, we become progressively and perhaps irreversibly beholden to them more than they could ever remain subject to us...
Concept Creep and the Necessity of Organisational Ambiguity
PTSD and psychological trauma remain empirical facts to be disentangled and negotiated through tactful intervention but the hyper-medicalisation of that knowledge and administrative reach into an individual's experience foundationally inflates the expected contours and probable expressions of those pathologies.
Revolutionary Fallacy ?
Sic semper tyrannis...
On Autopilot
Having successfully equipped myself with precisely the wrong set of mental tools and concepts to survive in this particular hyper-commercial and aggressively competitive world...
Galilean Irony
Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance...
Ego and Empire
I find myself endlessly amazed that we have not yet grown past the Age of Empire and Ego...
Uncertainty
Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?
