The Dread Economy: On the Structural Production of Chronic Low-Grade Terror The Dizziness of Freedom

One response to the dread economy is simply to stop counting

#dread

open.substack.com/pub/harmonio...

Evolution, in this sense, has expanded energetic control of the human body further and further and further into the world".

I stand corrected:

"A human brain will predictively attempt to act on the world as a way of allostatically regulating its body and then experience the world as it is relevant for that process.

and this was written by grown ups?

Infograph caption: 1984

a simulacra on my simulacra

oh did i mention that it connects with one of the most powerful principles of predictive regulation and organismic/neural design[sic]

#allostasis
#neural_design
#stirling&laughlin

one starts to sense that predictive processing in implementing categories is growing more organismic and processual density -

These signals propagate away from the limbic edge and are increasingly decompressed into probabilistic inferences of higher dimensionality".

"A category is predictive, because it is assembled before the arrival of feedforward signals. A category is abstract because the signals originating in limbic cortices are necessarily low dimensional, multimodal summaries...

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Categorization, the grouping of objects, living organisms, actions or events into equivalence clusters, is fundamental to adaptive behaviour. In this Perspective, Barrett and Miller discuss evidence t...

oh this is an excellent synthesis and proposition from

@earlkmiller.bsky.social & @lisafeldmanbarrett.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#philsky
#cogsky
#neurosky
#philsci

take me to your leader

This is a process-oriented alternative to ideological theories of the genesis of fascism, and reactionary politics in general. The process-oriented account replaces the “ideo-” with the “corporeo-”: for a corporeology of fascism.”

“The analysis here is of reaction in terms of objective illusionary error and the abstract general idea’s lending itself to generalization-upon- generalization, implanting predispositions in primed lives that accumulate into atmospheres sustaining them.

#fascism
#massumi
#affect
#process

Our capacity for avoidance is thus accommodated by the indeterminacy and anticipatory structure of experience.

#hauntology
#matthew_ratcliffe
#philsky
#neurosky

To not understand this gaggle of continental thinkers is frankly not surprising - there is a lifetime of entrenched conceptual priors to work through - mostly these thinkers become progressively more comprehensible as they suffuse ones being rather than frontal lobe.

Mine is erratic

so far i am a bit disappointed by the sparse treatment of evolution - to 'bake' requires persistent organism-environment coupling - holographic in it relations and intensity. what scale free mechanisms are on offer to fold worlds into organisms and more lately brains?

A complete rethinking of how our brains use categories to make sense of the world Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at eve...

Then there is this more distilled synopsis

picower.mit.edu/news/complet...

Cheers

Or is it a case of brains evolving-emerging in and necessarily reflecting the variegated (and categorically discrete) features of Umwelt - looking forward to taking in your perspectives.

art of the deal

hence the synergy with the new Jew

Seriously never literally

upstanding citizen

when pursuing strategic objectives descends into criminality

Never has there been a criminal gang so boastful and proud of its crimes.

this erasure is devastating and the affective basis of generations of resentment to come - not the rumble on which to build timeless 'peace' Israel claims to pursue

Such an under recognized and instructive group of people who possess distinct and valuable epistemologies

low msk tone, fatigue, hyper mobility, altered interoceptive and proprioceptive awareness plus an array of odd (read autonomic) symptoms.