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cybernetics

selling subscription selves

We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.

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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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Philosophy

mediated intimacy

Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: Climate Change

We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.

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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.

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cybernetics

phase control: communication, power, and the politics of timing

Change the timing and you change the structure. Communication is not merely the transfer of information through a network but the propagation of signals through media of different densities, delays, and constraints. Small temporal modulations accumulate. Phase shifts become interference patterns. Interference becomes organisation.

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communication

babble

At precisely the moment technology allowed us to express our own thoughts with unprecedented speed, ease, and fluency, people began switching off from the flood of language-model-mediated self-expression that followed.

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cybernetics

technique, technology, tesseract

Many of the largest problems now confronting technologically advanced societies are not failures of engineering, they are consequences of its success.

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systems

frustration with institutional orthodoxy

A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.