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cybernetics

The Narrowing of Possibility: Technology, Conformity and Civilisational Fragility

Our extraordinary technological and expressive abundance conceals a narrowing of possibility, as the systems rewarding innovation and success make civilisation increasingly fragile.

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cybernetics

France Protests: When Grievances Begin to Synchronise

A protest becomes something different when separate grievances begin moving at the same time. France offers a glimpse of how synchronisation amplifies communicative affect.

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cybernetics

[00] Cultural Interferometry: Disinformation and the Orbit of Platform Populism

Disinformation is not only false content. It is recurrence under pressure: cultural self-interference accelerated by platforms that reward compression, repetition, and volatility.