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cybernetics

The Organisation of Insecurity

A more durable security paradigm would concern the organisation of differences through which competition can continue without destroying the conditions necessary for its participants to survive.

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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

L’essence du langage : différence, délai et formation du sens

Le langage ne conserve pas sa cohérence malgré les décalages, les délais et l’incertitude, mais grâce à eux. Le sens se reconstitue continuellement dans les relations et persiste à travers leurs transformations.

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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

towards a continuity theorem

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

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cybernetics

persistence precedes substance

What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?

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cybernetics

conflict, coherence, and the logic of recurrence

What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.

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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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cybernetics

influence this: the probabilistic frequency structure of communication

Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.

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cybernetics

simply synchrony: rhythmic structure of complexity

Civilisations fall into rhythms, and changing those rhythms changes the futures they can sustain.

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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

language as harmonic structure

Meaning is not stored in words; it emerges as harmonic structure through time.