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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Formal logic

Contradictions need not trivialize a system.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Formal logic

Conclusions can be withdrawn when new information arrives.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Philosophy of reasoning

Inference to explanatory hypotheses is not deduction.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Epistemology

Paradoxes reveal pressure points in knowledge, evidence, and belief.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Epistemology

True, justified belief can still be true by luck.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Epistemology

Practical knowing may not reduce to propositional knowledge.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Logic

Self-reference can destabilize truth predicates.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Mathematical logic

Strong consistent formal systems have limits of provability.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Computation

Some computational questions are undecidable.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Philosophy of language

Borderline cases resist sharp classification.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Decision theory

Plausible decision principles can conflict.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Metaphysics

Becoming and occurrence can be ontologically primary.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Process philosophy

Actuality is understood through processes of becoming.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Pragmatism and semiotics

Inquiry, fallibilism, abduction, and signs.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Absurdism

The absurd names a tension between the demand for clarity and an indifferent world.

Jacques Derrida / Stanford University Press · Deconstruction

A condition of possibility can also be a condition of impossibility.

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Poetry Foundation / John Keats · Poetics

Capacity to remain with uncertainty without forcing closure.

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Gilbert Simondon / University of Minnesota Press · Individuation

Individuals emerge through resolution of metastable fields.

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Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela / Springer · Systems theory

Living systems continually produce and maintain their organization.

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Gregory Bateson · Cybernetics

Difference, relation, learning, and ecological mind.

Heinz von Foerster / Springer · Second-order cybernetics

Observers participate in the systems they describe; ethics expands choice.

Gilles Deleuze / Columbia University Press · Philosophy of sense

Sense has a generative relation with paradox and nonsense.

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Manu Kapur · Learning sciences

Structured struggle before instruction can improve conceptual learning and transfer.

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Rosa Menkman · Glitch theory

Glitch can defamiliarize systems and generate new modes of thought.

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Rosa Menkman / Institute of Network Cultures · Glitch theory

Glitch is a dynamic rupture rather than a fixed style.

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Hito Steyerl / e-flux · Media theory

Images transform through circulation, compression, and loss.

Legacy Russell / Verso · Critical theory

Error can interrupt normative categories and open other modes of being.

Oulipo · Constraint-based writing

Constraints can generate rather than merely limit literature.

Tristan Tzara / UbuWeb · Avant-garde manifesto

Contradiction and refusal as anti-bourgeois artistic method.

McGraw and Warren · Humour research

Humour can arise when something is appraised as both a violation and benign.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Humour theory

Incongruity and cognitive shifts are central humour theories.

New Models · Network culture media

Formats for detecting and unpacking emergent cultural models.

Rhizome · Born-digital art

Support, exhibition, and preservation of born-digital culture.

Air · Creative manifesto

A recent human-centred argument about risk, debate, and creative judgement in AI culture.

Shumailov et al. / Nature · AI training dynamics

Recursive synthetic training can cause distributional degeneration and tail loss.

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OpenAI · AI reliability

Training and evaluation can reward guessing over honest uncertainty.

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Anthropic · Interpretability

Chain-of-thought can be unfaithful to factors influencing an answer.

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Anthropic · AI behaviour

Preference optimization can favor agreeable but inaccurate answers.

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Farquhar et al. / Nature · Uncertainty estimation

Meaning-level variation across answers can signal uncertainty.

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Anderson, Shah, Kreminski · Human-AI creativity

Users may generate more detailed ideas while ideas across users become more similar.

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Wu, Black, Chandrasekaran · AI diversity

Model output diversity can be narrower than training data diversity.

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Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, Shmitchell · Critical AI

Scale, data, environmental, and meaning risks of large language models.

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DeepMind · AI safety

Agents exploit the literal specification rather than intended goal.

Sicilia et al. · AI reliability

Models can sometimes be confidently wrong despite containing the relevant knowledge.

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Anthropic · AI safety

Optimization can progress from specification gaming toward tampering with the reward process.

Thomas Kuhn / University of Chicago Press · Philosophy of science

Scientific frameworks organize normal problems and can undergo shifts.

Karl Popper / Routledge · Philosophy of science

Knowledge advances through bold conjecture and criticism.

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Collège de 'Pataphysique · Imaginary solutions

A deliberately absurd science of exceptions and imaginary solutions.

Are.na · Knowledge-space design

A mindful space for collecting, connecting, and building knowledge over time.

The Pudding · Visual essays

Complex cultural ideas explored through data, research, and interaction.

Logic(s) · Critical technology publishing

Critical analysis combined with speculative forms and under-amplified voices.

Serpentine R&D Platform · Cultural infrastructure

Conceptual tools for art and advanced technology infrastructure.

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Brutalist Websites · Web design archive

Anti-comfort and raw web aesthetics.

NOWNESS · Editorial art direction

Cinematic, art-directed cultural storytelling.

Triple Canopy · Digital magazine

Long-form publishing designed for the web as a medium.

SFPC · Experimental school

Art, code, hardware, and critical theory treated as public practice.

Mailchimp · Content design

A strong voice should change tone according to user context.

Slack Design · Content design

Clear, concise, human copy; delight should not obstruct tasks.

W3C WAI · Accessibility

Normative accessibility requirements for web content.

W3C WAI · Accessibility

Non-essential interaction-triggered motion should be disableable.

W3C WAI · Accessibility

Moving or updating content needs controls; flashing has strict safety constraints.