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cybernetics

harmonic communication

Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.

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cybernetics

how complex institutions preserve failure

Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.

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Philosophy

Order, Entropy and the Antisymmetry of Persistence

What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.

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Philosophy

unbalanced: political recursion

Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.

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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

à plus tard

Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.

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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

Applied Field Logic: Why?

The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.

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cybernetics

technology: we have a problem…

Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.

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cybernetics

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.

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cybernetics

technology sector: metabolising crisis

The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.

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Philosophy

reality

Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.