Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: system dynamics

Institutional Event Horizon

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Post date Jan 30, 2026
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By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]

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Time Management in Service Delivery Systems

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Post date Jan 26, 2026
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Service management systems are plagued by managerial failure. The primary error is the belief that regulatory oversight exists to eradicate delay, to accelerate everything. The result is a chaotic environment in which every actor attempts to displace temporal and material costs onto other people, times, and places – both within and beyond the organisation. This […]

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Kindness

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Post date Jan 23, 2026
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No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]

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On the Structural Limits of Political Language

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Post date Jan 10, 2026
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Victor Klemperer’s The Language of the Third Reich was written under conditions that were materially, professionally, and existentially constraining. As a Jewish academic in Nazi Germany, he was excluded from public life, subject to surveillance, and deprived of institutional protection. The book did not emerge as a theoretical project but as a record: observations accumulated […]

Tags administrative language, algorithmic language, attention economy, authoritarian language structures, authority and compliance, automatic uptake, boundaries and systems, brittle systems, bureaucratic discourse, causal structures in communication, coherence versus adaptability, collapse dynamics, collective identity formation, communication systems, complex adaptive systems, conflict semiotics, control and coordination, crisis communication, cybernetics, definitional circularity, delay and meaning, differentiation and identity, displacement of uncertainty, entropy in social systems, feedback loops, field logic, frequency domain thinking, ideology and language, language and governance, language and stability, language and violence, language under pressure, linguistic alignment, logic and structure, managed uncertainty, meaning and causality, media ecology, non-coincidence principle, organizational sensemaking, philosophy of language, philosophy-of-systems, platform governance, political communication dynamics, political fragility, political language analysis, political philosophy, post-linguistic semiotics, pre-interpreted language, pre-symbolic meaning, propaganda mechanisms, psychological dissonance, psychology of certainty, recursive systems, reflexive interpretation, self-reference in language, semantic compression, semantic degradation, semiotics and power, signal and reception, structural entropy, structural instability, structural realism, system dynamics, system environment distinction, systems theory, technological mediation, temporal structure of meaning, tribal cognition, uncertainty and ambiguity, utterance and interpretation, war and language

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System Dynamics and Surface Rules: Sharkskin, Political Economy

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Post date Dec 7, 2025
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Shark skin is a sheet of teeth: millimetre-scale placoid denticles, each with an enamel crown, dentine core and pulp cavity, rooted in the dermis and oriented from nose to tail so that one way feels smooth and the other rasps like sandpaper. In fast swimmers such as the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus and other pelagic […]

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Triggered, Tripped and Trapped (in America)

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Post date Aug 24, 2025
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Complex systems persist by inhabiting, invoking, sustaining nonlinear properties, where strict predictability collapses into fragility but feedback loops and fluctuating adaptations sustain continuity. Non-linearity here is less a mathematical technicality than an ontological geometry: the system thrives on unpredictability, dispersing shocks across distributed pathways and drawing from entropy itself as both constraint and medium. This […]

Tags America, belief, Complexity, conflict, field logic, politics, system dynamics