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Systems Thinking
Most systems research, it’s a kind of digital voodoo, a techno-shaman dance around the void. They conjure up these phantoms of utility, these spectral promises of a better tomorrow, built on the bones of yesterday’s discarded dreams. It’s a leap into the black, a wager on the unknown, a bet that this particular configuration of…
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Declaration of Economic Independence
When in the Course of financial events, it becomes necessary for one class of Men to dissolve the outdated economic bands which have connected them with the broader Public, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and superior station to which the Laws of Wealth and Influence entitle them, a decent…
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Everything is Subjunctive
Subjectivity Implies Reality’s Contingency: “Everything is subjective” is a performative contradiction, a metaphysical sleight of hand. The assertion of subjectivity as a universal condition paradoxically institutes a meta-subjectivity, a transcendental signifier that grounds the very groundlessness it proclaims. This is the insidious logic of the logocentric, a phantom objectivity haunting the spectral realm of the subjective. The subjunctive, often relegated to…
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A certain Rigor
The humanities, a sprawling, amorphous beast, lumber through the intellectual landscape with all the grace of a mastodon in heat. While STEM, the sleek, metallic titan of academia, marches purposefully towards a quantifiable, deterministic utopia, the humanities flounder amidst a swamp of subjectivity, where meaning is a capricious, shape-shifting entity. The humanists, bless their cotton-picking…
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Running On Vibes
First, the avoidance of contentious primaries is not merely a pragmatic decision; it reflects the way power operates in a postmodern political landscape. The elimination of primary challenges serves to short-circuit the democratic process, revealing the truth that democracy, in its late-capitalist form, has become a ritualistic performance rather than a genuine contest of ideas.…
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Capitalism Unimagined
The concept we’re describing touches on the cyclical nature of capitalism, where rules and regulations—designed to maintain fairness and accountability—are often subverted by those with capital. The Dance of Loopholes and Capital In capitalist systems, regulations are established to ensure fair competition, protect consumers, and maintain economic stability. However, these rules are frequently navigated by…
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Dark Humor/American Collapse
Collapse, a word for the wordless. No laughter here, only the echo of a joke lost in the static. Soviet black, French absinthe green, Spanish crimson – these were the hues of humor, once. Now, the palette is gray, the canvas smeared with the fingerprints of empire. Vonnegut, Pynchon, high-rise clowns juggling fire in a burning circus. We are the ground floor,the crushed and trampled, the dirt beneath their manicured…
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History of Violence
Man, a junkie scratching at the scabs of history, digging for the bone beneath the plaster. Also Man, a junkie for clean hands. His story a wet dream of innocence, a snow job centuries deep. Violence, the original sin, painted over like a cheap whorehouse facade History, a junkie’s needle, tracks the red line of violence. A…
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