Institutions do not merely resist criticism. They regulate the conditions under which criticism can become intelligible, credible and consequential.
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Limits of Institutional Understanding
Institutions do not merely resist criticism. They regulate the conditions under which criticism can become intelligible, credible and consequential.
From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.
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.