Leadership changes amount to little more than a rearrangement of positions within a system whose underlying incentives remain substantially unchanged.
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university system: status brokerage
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institutional failure
You cannot make the world better by changing who occupies positions of power while leaving the structure of power itself, and the machinery rewarding its behaviour, intact.
The language of the school was expansive: culture, power, technology, ethics, ecology, gender, indigeneity, diversity, human experience, systems, responsibility, complexity. It spoke fluently about uncertainty, fragility, and care. It marketed itself as a space for deep reflection on and constructive engagement with how technological systems were and are reshaping civilisation. But in one all-staff meeting, […]
In the mid-20th century, cybernetics emerged as a radical rethinking of systems, observers, and the recursive loops that bind them. It was never a closed discipline but a method of inquiry—a tool for understanding how systems regulate themselves and how observers entangle with the phenomena they study. It cut across biology, engineering, psychology, and philosophy. […]
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