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Living Inside Language

We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

Tags abstraction, abstraction drift, adaptability, administrative rationality, algorithmic decision making, ambiguity tolerance, artificial intelligence limits, automation and society, bureaucratic systems, categorisation, cognitive science, communication systems, complexity science, consciousness studies, control systems, cultural systems, cybernetics, data driven systems, decision infrastructures, distributed intelligence, efficiency logic, embodied cognition, emergence, epistemic humility, Epistemology, ethical technology, everyday philosophy, extended mind, feedback loops, formalisation, generative systems, governance systems, human centred systems, human cognition, human experience, humane design, information theory, institutional design, instrumental rationality, intelligence as field, interface thinking, language and reality, language technologies, loss of context, machine learning critique, managerial logic, meaning making, metrics and meaning, modern rationalism, Ontology, organisational behaviour, perception and reality, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, popular philosophy, power and knowledge, predictive systems, procedural reasoning, provisional knowledge, public understanding of complexity, resilience, responsibility and agency, rule based systems, science communication, sensemaking, social complexity, social systems, standardisation, symbolic systems, system optimisation, systems theory, systems thinking, technocracy, technological mediation, translation across domains, uncertainty

cybernetics

Conflict: Metaphysics of Non-Closure

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Post date Jan 11, 2026
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Conflict and competitive adversarialism are not necessarily moral failures or aberrations. They are contingent, historically acquired, culturally entrained mechanisms by which complex cognitive, cultural, and communicative systems reliably differentiate, learn, and reproduce themselves over time. These mechanisms arise because complexity does not form around completeness, nor does it arise from closure, certainty, or final resolution. […]

Tags abstraction and control, adaptive coherence, adaptive-systems, ambiguity tolerance, attention economy, authoritarian dynamics, boundary formation, cognitive load, collective psychology, collective sensemaking, communicative systems, complex systems, conflict escalation, conflict resolution, conflict theory, control theory, cultural evolution, cultural pathology, cybernetics, decision-making under uncertainty, difference and opposition, dissociation, emergence, entropy and order, Epistemology, ethics of conflict, feedback instability, feedback loops, gender and control, governance systems, governance under complexity, historical contingency, identity formation, ideological rigidity, information ecology, institutional failure, language and power, logic and limits, manosphere, masculinity and power, media systems, metaphysics of non-closure, moral psychology, neural entrainment, non-closure dynamics, non-orientable systems, non-violence theory, orbit dynamics, peace theory, peacebuilding, phase lag, phase space, philosophy of conflict, philosophy of logic, physics metaphors in philosophy, political psychology, political systems analysis, populism, post-conflict systems, power relations, psychological insecurity, resilience theory, second-order cybernetics, self and other, semantics and meaning, signal delay, social cohesion, social systems, steering systems, steering under uncertainty, strategic complexity, structural incompleteness, structural violence, systemic continuity, systemic risk, systems collapse, systems theory, technological mediation, thermodynamics of social systems, topology and geometry, uncertainty, Undecidability, war and peace, z-plane analysis

cybernetics

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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AI Market Collapse as Political Reset Switch

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Post date Jan 9, 2026
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What we are seeing does not require villains of unusual intelligence. Systems theory already explains it. Given enough time, scale, and communicative density, a field that rewards information throughput over stability will drift toward political decay. When wealth, power, and cultivated ignorance align inside technologically mediated communicative systems, destructive behaviour does not need intent or […]

Tags ai market collapse, ai market crash, artificial intelligence bubble, attention economy, civilizational risk, cognitive capture, communicative systems, decline of democracy, field logic, information throughput, institutional collapse, political decay, political economy, structural collapse, system reset, systemic instability, systems theory, technological mediation

cybernetics

Populism

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Post date Jan 6, 2026
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What we are dealing with is not primarily a moral or semantic crisis, even though it is experienced that way. Planetary-scale communication systems behave like physical systems with dense feedback and high throughput: they develop statistical biases toward states that reproduce the conditions of their own continuation. These systems have ontic reality—that is, they are […]

communication

Maintenance Mode

Modern systems do not fail for lack of intelligence; they fail because intelligence cannot be sustained inside them. What disrupts institutional self-reproduction is neutralised, not because it is wrong, but because it shortens the cycle. That is the sustainability problem. A civilisation that cannot maintain its own capacity for understanding cannot respond coherently to anything […]

Philosophy

Rising Tide

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Post date Dec 25, 2025
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A tidal wave of technologically mediated stupidity is upon us. Never has the output of so much intellectual aptitude been so efficiently commercialised and politically transduced into such meaningless, misanthropic sludge. Conflict is not inevitable, but pragmatism suggests the commercial dividend drives this dynamic ahead of—and to some extent prior to—any sustainably humanistic rationality. The […]

Tags cognitive degradation, commercialisation, media systems, political economy, stupidity, technological mediation