The mythology of the hero rests on an abstraction: that one can act with decisive force, impose order or belief, and remain untouched. In lived experience this is impossible. Violence and coercion, whether physical, institutional, or symbolic, leave residues that manifest as trauma — what in clinical terms is described as post-traumatic stress. The nervous […]
Context: Work is a False Idol Note: A newspaper article regarding the endemic failure of capitalism in China that is itself pay-walled and inaccessible seems suitably ironic as to leave hyper-linked here. It is interesting that this “movement” of self-propagating behavioural and information idioms or tropes might be rendered or interpreted as threatening to economic […]
The distributed information systems which we experience as social, cultural, economic and cognitive (or technologically-mediated) reality are implicitly weighted towards the self-replication and reproduction of existing patterns and biases.
Disclaimer: Christmas can be a great time for spending time with family and friends and for just generally doing nothing (i.e. relaxing). This post is a reflection on the stress of over-commercialised, hyper-competitive, shopping-intensive Christmas chaos. Another year of work is over. Office Christmas parties have been had, the last rush of work has been […]
Daedelus Kite 