The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Tag: systems theory
At the limit lies bullshit: language sufficiently detached from external constraint that its capacity to provoke another cycle of response becomes more important than what it describes.
Technocratic complexity and populist caricature are parts of the same feedback loop. Each produces the conditions that sustain the other.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
Disinformation does not persist because individual false claims survive. It persists because the communicative relations that make those claims meaningful continue to reproduce themselves.
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Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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