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Philosophy

Le populisme sans populiste : quand la communication nourrit la crise politique

Le populisme ne dépend pas uniquement de ceux qui l’exploitent. Les systèmes de communication favorisent déjà les mécanismes qui amplifient la division, la défiance et l’instabilité politique.

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Philosophy

The Reproduction of Authority: Cybernetics and Institutional Power at the Australian National University

I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.

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cybernetics

L’essence du langage : différence, délai et formation du sens

Le langage ne conserve pas sa cohérence malgré les décalages, les délais et l’incertitude, mais grâce à eux. Le sens se reconstitue continuellement dans les relations et persiste à travers leurs transformations.

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cybernetics

second-order phase locking

Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.

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Philosophy

populism, unmasked

Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.

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cybernetics

all swallowed whole

Technology cannot solve itself, because the introspective incompleteness that limits it is a function of the same combinatorial unboundedness that makes it at all possible; spoiler: we humans are similarly and simultaneously bound by identical logic.