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Philosophy

The Reproduction of Authority: Cybernetics and Institutional Power at the Australian National University

I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.

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Philosophy

Applied Field Logic: Mathematical Foundations

Applied Field Logic proposes that persistence is not found in things, but in maintained relationships. This paper develops the mathematical foundations of that claim.

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cybernetics

second-order phase locking

Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.