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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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cybernetics

The Open System: Technology, Security, and the Management of Permanent Exposure

Technology is extraordinary. It extends memory, speed, coordination, reach, and control. But it also carries a persistent deception. Not because it is unreal, but because it repeatedly presents open systems as though they could be made to feel closed. Cybersecurity makes this especially clear. There is no final safety, no completed perimeter, no settled technical […]