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.
Institutions study the world remarkably well. The harder problem is that the world they are studying is also inside the building, and there is no position outside the system from which that entanglement simply disappears.
Resistance to war is easy to respect and hard to execute, because the same communicative channels that allow objection also convert that objection into a commercially and strategically manageable signal. A manageable signal is one whose form, timing, and intensity are already accounted for by the systems that receive it. It can be measured, narrated, […]
