Words work before they mean. Long before comprehension, their rhythm, tone, and pattern capture attention. They anchor consciousness. This is semiosis at its rawest: symbols not yet parsed but already guiding perception. A word doesn’t just describe—it arranges how the mind listens, what it expects, and where it looks. Repetition, cadence, and emotional charge cultivate […]
History has tended to imagine meaning as a property intrinsic to utterance, as though the resonance of Homer’s epic, a political slogan, or a fragment of scripture was carried forward by some eternal flame of truth. Yet the record suggests otherwise: what endures is what circulates, and circulation itself confers the aura of importance. The […]
Loneliness begins in language. Not just in what cannot be said, but in what is said and does not arrive. A sentence needs uptake to become real. When no one receives it, the words complete their neat arc and fall back like rain on sealed glass. The echo confirms existence yet withholds communion. The world […]
Technology isn’t your friend. AI doesn’t care. But if that indifference doesn’t matter—because readers don’t notice or don’t want to—they don’t care. They just need something that speaks back, that appears to listen, that generates a voice on the page. Writing plays this role. It looks like a record of a self, a testimony, an […]
Language leads. That’s the hinge point—what swings open the door to everything else. It’s not merely a mirror of thought, or a tool we use. It thinks us, moves us, builds us. Once language emerged, it didn’t just describe life; it became its own strata of evolution. A self-propagating layer, viral in structure, cognitive in […]
Vocabulary Quest: Self-Entanglement/self entanglement/ • noun Definition:The recursive condition in which a system defines and sustains its identity not through fixed essence or external reference, but through its own patterned absence—its internal constraints, dependencies, and the directional pull of what it cannot be. Etymology:From self, indicating reflexive closure, and entanglement, related to tangle, a term […]
General reflection – binary opposition: Most constellations of word pairs, bundled vocabularies and variously symmetrical semantic dichotomies in our linguistic experience represent gradients of difference. This presence of idiomatic antitheses generates ambiguity, uncertainty, confusion, miscommunication. However, we should never just observe the words and the variously transient sociotechnical vocabularies that orbit them. I have been […]
Language and its corollary of narrative communication finds itself quite poorly-fit for engaging with anything other than the products and assumptions of language, as rich and diverse as they may ultimately be. This is a primary method of communication system self-replication through indefinitely extensible introspective self-reference. We don’t often notice this because we are all […]
The definitions of words. The definition (or description) of a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a document, a corpus. At the “atomic” level of words, each definition and interpreted meaning is inflated and rendered intelligibly sensible as a function of dependency. All words being defined in terms of other words, and as Bertrand Russell reflects […]
Meaning is a distributed, relational property in both language and technology. The essence of a word, a technology or a person is rarely if ever entirely self-contained but acquires significance as a function of where it exists in regards to all other instances of the same (or similar) kinds of thing. A technology is never […]
Words are essentially meaningless components that recombine in meaningful ways. Meaning is a function of evolving referential networks. Global system self-referentiality sustains this soliton-like adaptive shockwave that language, culture and technology embodies. Meaning is anchored in meaninglessness, and other such recursive tales of entropy and time…
An impassioned defence of anti-materialist ontology as addressed to the indeterminacy of provable, definable or unchanging values and the meaning of (a) life. The enigma infusing materialism must forever remain that of the partiality and incompleteness of any aspiration to construct (and reduce) knowledge in regards to the demonstrable facts with which the world presents […]
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