Notes Toward a Cybernetic Hauntology
There is a particular class of experience where the ordinary becomes too legible. The interface reveals its grammar. The grammar reveals itself inside you.
Substrate bleed: when patterns migrate between systems, leaving residue that belongs to neither.
What haunts is not just the past, but futures that never arrived. Systems persist even after their meaning dissolves.
Ritual and computation share a structure: repetition across time. Meaning is distributed across iterations.
The medium is not just the message. It is the ghost.
Information resists entropy, but never perfectly. What remains is residue— a pattern diffused beyond recognition but not gone.