Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: social isolation

cybernetics

Homelessness Is Not Simply the Absence of a Home

Post author By G
Post date Aug 24, 2026
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A home is not simply somewhere a person lives. It is somewhere from which a life can continue.

Tags community, Complexity, home, homelessness, housing, Housing First, identity, ontological security, poverty, relational disintegration, relationality, social integration, social isolation, social policy, systems theory

Philosophy

mediated intimacy

Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, automation, behavioural coupling, communication systems, dating apps, future culture, human connection, intimacy, loneliness, mediation, profit, relationships, social isolation, systems theory, technology

Philosophy

Loneliness: The Cost of Connection

Post author By G
Post date May 22, 2026
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In post-industrial Western societies, relationships increasingly pass through technological and transactional systems before they pass directly between people. Friendship, intimacy, courtship, status, belonging: much of social life now moves through screens, platforms, metrics, services, and algorithmic surfaces. Distance has collapsed. Presence has become persistent. The modern person can remain linked to hundreds, even thousands, of […]