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Peace, Dissonance, Complexity

Difference and dissonance is neither intrinsically good or bad. It is endemic to information system self-replication and information systems are autonomously oriented towards the reproduction of a threshold level of “noise” or turbulence through which to optimally ensure resilience and continuity – this is how emergence manages to NOT produce the same things but represents […]

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culture

Counter-culture as Useful Entropy

The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.

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culture

Virtual Machine: Sub-Cultures

I like the way that when Japanese do sub-culture, they don’t hold back or go anything like half-way…