This nauseating fear and gathering storm, the manifestation of an unacknowledged, unknown horror: our bodies were never impermeable, our minds - never infallible. The juggling, shuffling and dancing patterns of information and entropy from which we emerged - these were never some distant Otherness and isolated (or tamed) danger and threat of difference, of distance.…
When we close our eyes…
Broken symmetry... This is what we all see when we close our eyes and look deep inside. It is imperfect, discontinuous, fractured and incomplete. This is also why it is beautiful. The world is a broken symmetry and imperfect self-reflection and this is exactly why there is diversity, complexity, creativity and life. Some things can…
Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
Art as Encoded Message
Information encoding for message transmission is a function expressed in (and as) visual culture and which evolves over time.
Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.
A Paradox of Online Political Engagement
The endless stoking of the fires of difference might do little over a longer term to benefit the ideological and political voices and positions of liberalism and humanism.
Complex Systems: Life, Intelligence and a Logical Wormhole
Systems continuity and the emergence of useful, creative complexity harnesses the implicit and constitutive logical discontinuity of a holistic systems theory in mischievous ways...
Beauty
One does not need to own a work of art to truly or fully understand or appreciate the deep beauty of its message...
