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.
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.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
Organised systems persist by reproducing the biases that make their own continuity more probable.
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
What sustains the dynamical relations from which persistent structures emerge?
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
Applied Field Logic functions as a general analytical framework through which organisational regularities become comparable across otherwise unrelated domains. Advanced cybernetics.
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
