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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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language

Probably: Why What Happens Keeps Happening

The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.

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Organisation

Organisational Inertia

Entrenched resistance to mature and well-informed organisational metamorphosis and (useful) new ideas is simultaneously: a concise characterisation of (the) fear of novelty, difference and change; the essential pattern and shape of (pretty much every historical instance of) organisational, political and ideological pathology; a reflection of core psychological symmetries and reflexive boundaries through which self- (or […]