Silicon Valley’s elite have always seen themselves as more than just businessmen. They are visionaries, architects of the future, the ones who will guide humanity into the next phase of evolution. They talk about AI, longevity, and the end of nation-states as if they are inevitable, as if the old world is already crumbling, and […]
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Western thought is a vast and sprawling apparatus built to contain the chaos that lurks beneath its surface. From Plato to Kant, from Hegel to the bureaucrats of modernity, it is a system obsessed with control—its function is not to understand the world but to manage it, to fence in the unthinkable, to regulate the […]
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By the end of the 20th century, something strange had happened. The dream of freedom had curdled into a demand for control. The idea that politics should serve the people gave way to the idea that the people must be shaped by the state. And in the decaying echo chambers of power, a new kind […]
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Once, people believed the world was governed by rational systems—by leaders and experts who understood how to shape the future. But as the chaos of modernity grows, a different story has taken hold: the idea that a secret elite, hidden from view, controls everything. It is comforting in its simplicity. It suggests that someone, somewhere, […]
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From Wikipedia Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities. Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as “the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.” In the 21st century, the term is often used in a rather loose way to imply “control of any system […]
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Spinoza was famously called ‘the prince of philosophers’ by French post-structuralist, Gilles Deleuze. He has been accused of atheism, he was kicked out of his Synagogue because of his philosophical views and he has become one of the most influential philosophers in modern times. Spinoza’s approach, much like his contemporary, Leibniz, was very close to […]
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The performance of this man: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1531127203599094&id=836462903065531 is truly amazing!
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I find any TV Shows, literature, movies etc, to work really well when the situation is set in a small, limited space. Examples include: Jean Paul Sartre – No Exit Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis Mike Leigh – Abigail’s Party Sapphire and Steel – 1,2,3rd seasons (the ones I have seen) Martin Parr’s version of […]
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We live in a Disaster Capitalist state. Naomi Klein pointed out one of Milton Freidman’s tactics of using events of terror and catastrophe- from Earthquakes to Suicide Bombers- to play political spin to the advantage of the neoliberal agenda. The horrific attack on the Manchester Arena may be used to Theresa May’s advantage – a […]