The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
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our collective future
Tag: Systeme
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
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bureaucratic entropy
The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.
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stop making sense
No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
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the value of nothing
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
Daedelus Kite 