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?
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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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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mediated intimacy
Loneliness becomes a market when technology makes itself the bridge between people.
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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.
The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.
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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