We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
Tag: technology
The scale of the consequences has changed while the competitive selection tests for authority remain embarrassingly small.
Trump depends upon the opposing media he seeks to exclude. Its opposition generates the conflict through which his political identity acquires force. The wizard needs the curtain, but he also needs someone on the other side insisting that we look behind it.
A civilisation increasingly governed by visibility mistakes popularity for substance.
Crime and punishment are coupled systems that reproduce the epistemic distinction, differential diffusion and binding distance through which social order defines itself.
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Technocracy: Addicted to Risk
We have constructed a civilisation in which recognising existential risk has become another reason to continue producing it.
Technology keeps solving the problems technology creates, tightening our dependence on machinery whose cumulative costs keep growing and from which there is no longer any clean exit.
Conflict builds technology, technology reorganises conflict, and somewhere inside the loop every new problem becomes someone’s next investment opportunity.
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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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WTF
We keep telling the same stories in different ways. The faces, crises and characters change. The same tribal pattern keeps finding new forms.
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.
