We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
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WTF
Tag: technology
The manosphere promises strength and control, yet its communities, platforms and markets are structurally and commercially dependent on reproducing the insecurities they claim to resolve.
The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
Civilisations persist by continually reorganising themselves. The unanswered question is whether conflict, crisis and systemic collapse/renewal remain the principal means through which that persistence is achieved.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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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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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what holds a society together?
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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persistence precedes substance
What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?
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