How possibility becomes reality, and why that gap keeps us alive. Time is what turns possibility into fact, starlight into living dust, experience into oblivion. Holding a stone in your hand is holding a pocket full of unrealised futures: nothing has moved, yet movement is waiting. Let it go and those possibilities rush into action […]
Expressing ideas with, without, through, or as technological mediation isn’t the issue. The trouble begins with what we expect that mediation to deliver. The moment we try to instrumentalise the whole field—writing, sharing, signalling, transmitting—we quietly become the instrument. We become the relay. The medium. A carrier for systems and incentives that were never ours […]
Imagine F and G as two interdependent operations—each defining the other through difference. F acts as a generator: it constructs hypotheses, projections, or internal states. G acts as a comparator: it evaluates, reflects, and reintroduces the outcomes of F back into the system. The diagram’s symmetry, where F = − G, indicates an inversion rather […]
Language is a dynamic communicative field of oscillatory coupling, in which coherence, drift, and disinformation emerge as harmonic modes of the same process. Drawing on Kuramoto’s synchronisation model, synergetics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory, this essay interprets linguistic activity as rhythmic modulation between repetition and deviation. Meaning arises through metastable oscillation among semantic attractors, maintained […]
Technology operates as an engine of sociotechnical addiction not only because of the dopamine loops it inhabits but because of the recursive deficit embedded in every function it provides. Each convenience extracts slightly more than it gives back, yet disguises this loss through displacement: the cost is shifted outward, onto others, into the future, or […]
The strange game of personal, digital (ie cybersecurity) hygiene is a mirror turned back on itself. Someone might believe that they are essentially protecting personal data, identity, security — but in truth what is being protected are the very contours of surveillance and extraction required by the (ie world, integrated) communications system. Every password, every […]
Belief systems—political, spiritual, cultural—do not cohere because they achieve certainty. They cohere because they cannot. The very fact that their claims are indeterminate and unprovable generates the turbulence that binds them together. What looks like a contest over truth is, in effect, the medium of systemic persistence. Institutions, rituals, and governing frameworks stabilise themselves by […]
The more precisely we define and describe any system, the more deeply it becomes embedded in the field of relations (and/or language) that makes it possible. This is not an accidental by-product of analysis but a structural inevitability: to single something out is to weave it more tightly into what surrounds it. Every definition is […]
A thing being as equally and oppositely defined by that which it is not as much as by what it provably is (or consensually appears to be), the absence of its opposite is the simultaneous presence of its psychological, cultural and technologically-mediated self. Facilitated by conveniences of Gestalt illusion, familiar enough to student artists but […]
Is “does the AI understand meaning?” an inadvertently deceptive question? We are intent on chasing and catching butterflies with a jar made out of butterflies! Yes, that may just have to be the nature of any expansive philosophy of language but the least we might do is to acknowledge the core intractability of seeking explanatory […]
Indeterminacy is the generative core of cognition. It is an elementary absence in knowledge that counter-intuitively inflates language (and communication) with meaning.
The aesthetic liberation of the depiction of the impossible is found in representational systems such as languages and narratives, which are unified by their inability to represent anything beyond their own tautological interfaces. The entity that embodies horror most powerfully is not the tangible evils of the world, but rather the absence of unambiguous truth […]
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