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Understanding as Resistance: Against the Empire of Engineered Ignorance

We live not merely in an age of information, but paradoxically, in an age of cultivated unknowing—where the proliferation of data conceals a deliberate architecture of ignorance. Photo by Janko Ferlic on Pexels.com The noise that floods our perceptual space is not neutral; it is weaponised, designed to distract, fragment, and pacify. We are no longer passive recipients of ignorance, but active…

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Reflexive Capture — The Rise of the Algorithmic Double – Part 2

In the expanding architectures of datalogical power, the self is no longer merely a passive object of surveillance or an externalised phenomenon of institutional capture. Rather, it becomes a self-generating artefact, a reflexive construction that emerges through the constant folding of information back into experience, affect, habit, and choice. The individual, once imagined as a discrete…

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Private Property #2

Private property, once stripped of its fragile pretence to conceptual unity, becomes a dense collision field in which mutually incompatible ontologies are forced to cohabit a single juridical surface without ever resolving into coherence, because the same object simultaneously appears as moral right, historical sediment, economic instrument, psychological anchor, metaphysical illusion, political…

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Life #4

Sociopolitical stress collapse marks the phase in which the revolutionary reconfiguration of life ceases to appear as controlled adaptation and instead manifests as systemic overextension across all levels of social organisation, where institutions continue to operate formally while their capacity to generate coherence, legitimacy, and collective intelligibility erodes under the cumulative weight…

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Life #3

Life under revolutionary imposition no longer appears as spontaneous unfolding within stable ecological, cultural, or metaphysical conditions but as a violently reorganised substrate subjected to continuous material restructuring under extreme technological, economic, planetary, and psychological pressures, such that existence itself becomes engineered adaptation within systems increasingly…

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Life #2

Life under contemporary conditions no longer unfolds within a singular metaphysical order but within a violently overcrowded field of incompatible ontologies forced into simultaneous operation without reconciliation, such that biological evolution, capitalist productivity, digital abstraction, therapeutic psychology, ecological interdependence, religious transcendence, neuroscientific…

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Life #1

Life has become one of the most ontologically unstable concepts in contemporary civilisation because every framework attempting to define it immediately encounters contradictory realities incapable of being reconciled into a coherent essence, such that biology reduces life to metabolic self organisation and evolutionary reproduction, capitalism reduces it to productive capacity and economic…

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Power #4

Power collapses sociopolitically not at the moment it loses force but at the moment the systems through which force was metabolised into legitimacy, continuity, symbolic coherence, and psychological tolerability can no longer absorb the cumulative contradictions generated by ontological fracture, multiplicity overload, and revolutionary reconfiguration under constraint, thereby producing a…