Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
Tag: resilience
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
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dire straits: the economics of delay
Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.
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some like it hot
Applying an extranumerary interdimensional eye to the complex, adaptive yet strategic dynamics of climate change.
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indefatigably yours
Still here. Still thinking. Still refusing to disappear.
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second-order phase locking
Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.
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adaptation: fixing aussie politics
There is no final closure. No permanent certainty. No government that fixes everything forever. There are only systems that adapt well and systems that adapt badly.
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miracle of persistence
Life is not astonishing simply because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together and this resilience is the kernel core of its persistence.
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peace, pieces, holism
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the difficult art of sustaining difference without collapse.
Climate change becomes civilisational risk when insurance can no longer translate catastrophe into recoverable cost.
Energy markets do not merely price fuel. They encode the recurrence structure of civilisation’s dependency on energy. Refinery cycles, shipping delays, seasonal demand, storage constraints, geopolitical tension, and futures speculation appear as price movement, but price is only the visible signal. Beneath it sits a temporal field of repeated dependence. Energy markets are not merely […]
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Managed Peace
Managed peace is the hard, ongoing work of keeping real conflict from tipping a tightly coupled world into outcomes it cannot survive.
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