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Civilisation Engineering: a rough blueprint
How society lost its grip on reality — and how mathematics can help fix this
5 hrs ago • Martin Geddes
The ΩΛ∆∑ calculus of Trump’s 2016 campaign ad
What can we see when a famous political message is treated like executable governance code and examined clause by clause through a runtime debugger?
May 14 • Martin Geddes
Three readings of Trump’s 2016 campaign ad
Conventional, phenomenological, and structural readings of one of the most powerful political advertisements of the modern era
May 13 • Martin Geddes
Three histories of America
Standard, synthetic and symbolic views of how the United States became less real over time
May 12 • Martin Geddes
Reader’s companion: How to read “Politics is not what you think it is”
A guide to the deeper structure beneath ideology and political conflict
May 11 • Martin Geddes
Politics is not what you think it is
The hidden war between boring coordination and synthetic governance
May 11 • Martin Geddes
Notes from AI on Constitutional Cybernetics
How a strange court case turned into a theory of civilisation
May 10 • Martin Geddes
Civilisation Attenuation and Synthetic Success
A category error at the heart of modern governance theory risks something worse than collapse: manufactured continuity that silently consumes other…
May 10 • Martin Geddes
ΩΛ∆∑ — A universal structural model of governance under load
A draft paper for public comment on object determinacy, attribution, overload, and termination in complex governance systems
May 8 • Martin Geddes
Crushed by the algorithm
How X stopped being a social network and became an attention auction system
May 7 • Martin Geddes
A diagnostic scale of institutional evil
Wickedness no longer requires monsters — only machinery
May 6 • Martin Geddes
Action Theory: when doing comes before knowing
In our idealised world, sufficient data is gathered before decisions are made. In reality, binding outcomes must be generated under uncertainty. This…
May 5 • Martin Geddes
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