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Philosophy politics

How Societies Sustain Life

A society sustains peace through care, difference and collective intelligence, organising its institutions to preserve life, enable participation and adapt to changing circumstances.

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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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cybernetics

The Strait of Hormuz: Cascades, Delay and the Architecture of a Crisis

The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.

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Philosophy

Selected Essays: Systems, Communication and Contemporary Life

Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.

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cybernetics

parenting, adolescence and the organisation of difference

Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.

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cybernetics Philosophy

logical orbit: organised persistence as relational invariant

A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.

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cybernetics

towards a continuity theorem

Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.

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cybernetics

what holds a society together?

Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?

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cybernetics

persistence precedes substance

What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?

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cybernetics

Applied Field Logic: From Field-Level Principles to Domain-Level Practice

Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

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Philosophy

entrainment

Systems do not merely occupy space. They persist through timing, resonance, and the self-organising rhythms that sustain differential complexity.