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Whew! Phew!
I spent Thursday through Sunday attending the annual conference of the American Society for Cybernetics:
Constructivism, Design, Cyberntics: Radical, Social, Second-Order.
It was sponsored and hosted by Mark Enslin of the School for Designing a Society.
What a delirious assortment of weirdos: inspiring, frustrating, incoherent, impossibly coherent, dim, provocative, virtuoso.
It was enriched exponentially by the presence of a horde of experimental theater performers/composers from Olympia, with their mentor Arun Chandra. Not to mention the indigenous Urbana experimental composers.
OK, I really just got on here to note two things. One is promising, the other is something less clear.
They are both sentences.
1: An economic system is whatever mechanism it is in a social system that connects the meeting of our needs to the frustration of our desires.
(Responding to questions about what is meant by the term "economic system.")
2: Human ecosystems have armies because we do not have decomposers.
(Not that armies are doing the work of decomposers. The system needs armies to do what armies do, because the work of decomposition/recirculation is NOT being done.)
Constructivism, Design, Cyberntics: Radical, Social, Second-Order.
It was sponsored and hosted by Mark Enslin of the School for Designing a Society.
What a delirious assortment of weirdos: inspiring, frustrating, incoherent, impossibly coherent, dim, provocative, virtuoso.
It was enriched exponentially by the presence of a horde of experimental theater performers/composers from Olympia, with their mentor Arun Chandra. Not to mention the indigenous Urbana experimental composers.
OK, I really just got on here to note two things. One is promising, the other is something less clear.
They are both sentences.
1: An economic system is whatever mechanism it is in a social system that connects the meeting of our needs to the frustration of our desires.
(Responding to questions about what is meant by the term "economic system.")
2: Human ecosystems have armies because we do not have decomposers.
(Not that armies are doing the work of decomposers. The system needs armies to do what armies do, because the work of decomposition/recirculation is NOT being done.)
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