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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

developmental delay

The defining challenge of this century is no longer building more powerful technologies. It is developing human and institutional capacities capable of understanding, governing, and surviving the systems we have already created.

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cybernetics

a theory of differential communication

Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.

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Philosophy

bureaucratic entropy

The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.

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cybernetics

time is the finite propagation of relation

Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.