Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
Tag: Complexity
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
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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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corruption
Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
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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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irony age
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.
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wealth drag
Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
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crackpot optics
Unpopular ideas are not always wrong. Sometimes they simply fail to flatter the machine.
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social distortion: disaffection
Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.
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system dynamics: non-linearity
Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
