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cybernetics

Yes, We’re All Individuals

Why institutions, political movements and intellectual communities reproduce the same patterns of identity, conformity and exclusion while insisting on their differences.

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Philosophy

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Another Upgrade

We have become extraordinarily good at making technology better, but much less skilled at recognising when good enough is enough. Much of what passes for progress now serves profit rather than people, so deeply embedded in our culture that we scarcely recognise the difference.

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cybernetics

What Does Education Do?

Education stabilises knowledge long enough to transmit it, even as the machinery through which knowledge is produced and interpreted accelerates the movement of the epistemic attractor itself.

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Philosophy

Selected Essays: Systems, Communication and Contemporary Life

Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.

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life

how technology and political absurdity keep each other alive

Political absurdity generates the volatility through which technology acquires influence, while technology increasingly reproduces the conditions that keep political absurdity alive.

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cybernetics

what holds a society together?

Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?

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cybernetics

persistence precedes substance

What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?

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cybernetics

technology’s hidden dependency on conflict

Technology and conflict do not simply cause one another; they emerge from the same relational mechanism, where volatility, advantage, fear, and opportunity make their mutual reproduction increasingly probable.

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cybernetics

technology: we have a problem…

Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.

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cybernetics

technology sector: metabolising crisis

The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.