Language does not contain the world; the world contains language, yet impoverished meaning becomes machinery, mythology, and moral fact precisely when language behaves as though its crude categories contain reality itself.
Open a modern news homepage and nothing seems especially unusual. Headlines stack one after another, breaking banners pulse, politicians argue, commentators react, scandals erupt and dissolve, and somewhere among the noise a few careful investigations still appear. Public broadcasters, commercial television networks, global digital outlets and tabloid aggregators all occupy the same surface. They differ […]
I am withdrawing from almost all U.S.-based digital subscriptions; soon, all. This is not a symbolic gesture or an act of ideological theatre. It is a practical decision grounded in observation. Platform governance is converging with corporate and political power into a single operational field, where economic alignment determines visibility, legitimacy, and survival. The architecture […]
We use technologies that also use us. Over time, methods are formalised into metrics, metrics are stabilised into categories of meaning, and tools designed to assist begin to define which actions are recognised as valid. What once supported activity becomes background infrastructure. The tools move to the centre. Human experience no longer anchors them; it […]
We are likely worrying about the wrong thing. The danger is not that AI amplifies stupidity, volatility, selfishness, or ideological corruption. The danger is the speed of that amplification, the smoothness with which it integrates into ordinary life, and the ease with which this acceleration is framed as inevitable. It is not inevitable. But velocity […]
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