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Philosophy

our collective future

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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cybernetics Philosophy

system time

Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.

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cybernetics

a theory of differential communication

Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.

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Philosophy

bureaucratic entropy

The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.

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Philosophy

stop making sense

No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.

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cybernetics

time is the finite propagation of relation

Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.