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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

institutional conservatism and the failure of inquiry

The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.

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Philosophy

hemlock smoothie

Universities still teach Socrates, but only rarely entertain the genuine institutional risk that his intellectual integrity signifies.