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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

Before the Message: A Relational Account of Persistent Disinformation

Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.