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Philosophy

Limits of Institutional Understanding

Institutions do not merely resist criticism. They regulate the conditions under which criticism can become intelligible, credible and consequential.

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Philosophy

Eight Billion Nervous Systems and Nobody at the Wheel

From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.

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Philosophy

Endemic Corruption: Entropy, Acceleration and the Paradox of Self-Regulation

The paradox is how to preserve a planetary civilisation’s capacity for emergent self-regulation without irreversibly surrendering it to the political, economic and technological artefacts, entities and systems established to manage and control it.