Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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music

Hendrix: House Burning Down

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Post date Mar 25, 2026
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When Jimi Hendrix released House Burning Down on Electric Ladyland, American cities were already unstable. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy ignited unrest across neighbourhoods shaped by segregation, economic decline, and deteriorating apartment blocks. Buildings burned in riots, but also through opportunism. Some landlords torched failing properties for insurance. Some […]

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The Game

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Post date Jan 25, 2026
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Systems of governance and regulation, insofar as they attempt to secure social, economic, and existential continuity, are structurally compromised. Their primary function is not effective service delivery, but the preservation of administrative and status hierarchies. Continuity of role, office, and influence comes first; the public good follows, if at all. Politics becomes theatre. Institutions become […]

Tags administrative bloat, bureaucratic inertia, civilizational breakdown, civilizational risk, communication systems, complex systems, cultural decline, cybernetics, existential crisis, financial power, future collapse, global instability, governance reform, governance-failure, greed, higher education collapse, inequality, information overload, institutional critique, institutional decay, institutional self preservation, knowledge suppression, late capitalism, media ecology, political dysfunction, political economy, power concentration, regulatory failure, social fragmentation, status hierarchy, structural tragedy, sustainability failure, systemic collapse, systemic risk, systems theory, technocracy critique, technocratic governance, technological mediation, university crisis

technology

Divided

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Post date Jan 5, 2026
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Technologically mediated communication intensifies what language has always done: it isolates, divides, and distances us from one another, and from ourselves, as a necessary precondition for meaningful communicative experience to arise at all. Given the nature of the world, I carry a quiet regret at not having known more people more fully, even while understanding […]