2022 Critical Social Ontology Workshop Program Posted on January 28, 2022 by rgroff2013 Conference will be free, but you’ll need to register. Details coming shortly. For now, e-mail ruth groff slu.edu to express your interest.

2022 Critical Social Ontology Workshop Program | Powers, Capacities & Dispositions

Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report   Tuesday 15th March 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT

CECAN Webinar: Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report

Markov genealogy processes for exact phylodynamic inference A Hybrid(!!) Complex Systems Seminar Room 747 Weiser Hall and ZOOM (link below)      Aaron King UM Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for the Study of Complex Systems Tuesday, February 15, 2022 11:30AM EST

CSCS Seminar Presents Feb. 15: “Markov genealogy processes for exact phylodynamic inference” 1st Hybrid Seminar!! (since…a while)

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How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable – YouTube

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable

1,459 views11 Feb 202240DISLIKESHAREDOWNLOADSAVEMashable1.12M subscribersSUBSCRIBEDIn the 1970s, the US government and a group of universities were working on the fastest possible way to connect unwieldy mainframe computers separated by thousands of miles. Their work, the ARPANET, would become the basis for the modern internet. The networks we now depend on still reflect the purpose and worldview of its time and place: open, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable. But there is another story. A hemisphere away, a group of programmers in Santiago, Chile were building a network of their own. Project Cybersyn had a purpose, ethos, and design completely different from the American network. In the two brief years it lasted, Cybersyn’s creators saw the shape of something unique, something that was lost before we ever really learned what it could have meant to a networked world.

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable

How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 | Kernel Panic | Mashable – YouTube

Michael Garfield Mar 25, 2017 · 10 min read · Listen How to Live in The Future Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed

How to Live in The Future Part 4: The Future is Exapted/Remixed | by Michael Garfield | Medium

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development Author links open overlay panel

P.K.Anokhin

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development – ScienceDirect

Systemogenesis as a General Regulator of Brain Development

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The data collected in the laboratories over a number of years gives an opportunity to suggest that systemogenesis is a real regulator of the development of the brain structures and functions. The development goes on all the time selectively and is accelerated in accordance with the earliest needed adaptation to the outside surroundings by the newborn animal. It is seen that the well-timed consolidation of the vitally needed functional systems of the organism is continuously monitored by the systemic initial arrangement, the growth, and consolidation of the components of the functional system. It is also seen that this heterochronic maturation of different components of the functional system takes place everywhere, including the finest organizations on the level of molecular combinations and in the processes of the selective and successive maturation of individual synaptic organizations, in particular, on the cortical level. It is true that the systemogenetic type of the maturation and the growth is the most marked for those functional systems of the organism, which must be mature exactly at the moment of birth. They are evidently inborn, the preparation for their consolidation is preformed, and in fact, in the process of the ontogenesis, they correspond demonstrably to the ecological factors of that species of animal. The combination of the components of later and finer organized functional systems on the basis of which different behavioral acts are formed is less easily demonstrated. In that case, maturation and formation of new synaptic organizations of the brain in the presence of the completely mature peripheral working apparatus begin to play a leading role.

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🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 38 February 10th, 2022 The FLUX Collective 9 hr ago 2 Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park // Photo: Neel Mehta, FLUX Episode 38 — February 10th, 2022 — Available at read.fluxcollective.org/p/38 Contributors to this issue: Ade Oshineye, Dimitri Glazkov, Erika Rice Scherpelz, Stefano Mazzocchi, Justin Quimby, Alex Komoroske, Boris Smus, Neel Mehta,  Robinson Eaton Additional insights from: Gordon Brander, a.r. Routh, Ben Mathes, Spencer Pitman We’re a ragtag band of systems thinkers who have been dedicating our early mornings to finding new lenses to help you make sense of the complex world we live in. This newsletter is a collection of patterns we’ve noticed in recent weeks. “To be soft is to be powerful” ― Rupi Kaur 🔬🔭 From problems to problem spaces We humans love to measure our usefulness by our problem-solving ability. Yet, in this complex world, the process of problem-solving alone rarely leads to closure. More often than not, an attempt to solve a given problem just produces another set of problems… some larger than the original. At first, these new problems might not register as actual problems. Over time they fester and grow, first just a nuisance, then nipping at our heels, and then, with a sudden phase transition, looming in front of us like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. An organization that celebrates itself as a problem-solving machine is likely at an earlier stage of its cultural evolution. Progress here is defined by solving more problems more quickly, without pausing to think whether today’s problem was caused by yesterday’s speedy solution. Words such as “impact” and “launch” are at the center of its vernacular.

🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 38 – 🌀🗞 The FLUX Review

Creating Patterns of Possibility March 3rd, 15:00 CET / 14:00 GMT / 9:00am ET Join us as Charles Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall outline new practical models for shifting systems by changing the pattern of relationships in conversation with practitioners with deep experience charting relational shifts which change systems.

Webinar: Creating Patterns of Possibility – March 3rd. — The System Innovation Initiative

Strategy in a Complex World, What’s the Point? – Discussion Thu, February 24 2:00pm – 3:00pm GMT

It is well known that complex adaptive systems are unamenable to traditional linear approaches to management and strategy. They consist of a wide array of actors acting, reacting, adapting, and evolving. International politics, cities, social networks, and communities are examples. However, the question is, does their somewhat uncontrollable and unpredictable nature render management and strategy irrelevant? Or is it simply that we need to reinvent our understanding and approach to strategy in light of a new recognition of the complexity of the organizations we inhabit and work with.

In this discussion between Orit Gal and Mark McCoy we will be unpacking this question and exploring if there can be strategy in a world of complexity what does it look like and how might we go about it. Orit Gal is the senior lecturer for strategy and complexity at Regents University London. Developer of the theory of Social Acupuncture she teaches a range of courses relating to the application of complexity theories to operational design, in areas such as innovation, social entrepreneurship, economic development, and conflict resolution.

This will be a 1-hour discussion hosted by the Si London Hub. The event will be a hybrid one with the interview streamed from our co-working  location with participants joining via Zoom. Date: 24th, 2 pm UK

Strategy in a Complex World, What’s the Point? – Discussion | Si Network

The link is to the Mighty Networks site – https://www.systemsinnovation.network/

It seems that you can also join directly at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9926975973

Systems Thinking: ‘The Imagination Machine’​, ‘Sandtalk’​, and ‘Being a Human’​ Published on February 9, 2022 Status is online Dr Mike C Jackson OBE

(1) Systems Thinking: ‘The Imagination Machine’​, ‘Sandtalk’​, and ‘Being a Human’​ | LinkedIn

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Magic circles – by Gordon Brander – Subconscious

Magic circles

There’s this lens from games studies that I keep coming back to, the “magic circle”.

All play moves and has its being within a playground marked off beforehand either materially or ideally, deliberately or as a matter of course. Just as there is no formal difference between play and ritual, so the “consecrated spot” cannot be formally distinguished from the playground. The arena, the card table, the magic circle, the temple, the stage, the screen, the tennis courts, the court of justice, etc, are all in form and function playgrounds, i.e. forbidden spots, isolated, hedged round, hallowed, within which special rules obtain. All are temporary worlds within the ordinary world, dedicated to the performance of an act apart.
Johan Huizinga, 1938, “Homo Ludens”

So, a “magic circle” is a name for the space in which a game takes place. When we step into the magic circle, the we suspend the rules of ordinary life, and allow the rules of the game to mediate our interactions.

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Magic circles – by Gordon Brander – Subconscious

Luhmann Control Of Intransparency shanchuan huang

(PDF) Luhmann Control Of Intransparency | shanchuan huang – Academia.edu

General systems theory shows that the combination of self-referential operations and
operational closure (or the re-entry of output as input) generates a surplus of possible
operations and therefore intransparency of the system for its own operation. The system
cannot produce a complete description of itself. It has to cope with its own unresolvable
indeterminacy. To be able to operate under such conditions the system has to introduce
time. It has to distinguish between its past and its future. It has to use a memory function
that includes both remembering and forgetting. And it needs an oscillator function to
represent its future. This means, for example, that the future has to be imagined as
achieving or not achieving the goals of the system. Even the distinction of past and future
is submitted to oscillation in the sense that the future can be similar to the past or not. In
this sense the unresolvable indeterminacy or the intransparency of the system for itself
can find a temporal solution. But this means that the past cannot be changed (although
selectively remembered) and the future cannot be known (although structured by
distinctions open for oscillation). © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Syst. Res., Vol. 15, 359–371 (1997)

PCT in 11 Steps An outline of PCT written as a proposal for a series of TV programs.

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Designing Freedom Together Download (.pdf)

Discussion: Designing Freedom Together – Academia.edu

Abstract

This paper tells the story of developing, collaboratively, a visionary whole system
transition architecture within a UK regional transport context in 2021. It is written,
in the first person, by the two authors whose focus of interest is in complex
living systems, characterized by emergence, abundant creativity and surprise.
They view design as an inherent aspect of ongoing change, which can be built
intrinsically into the living system, not as a stage in a sequential procedure. They
view themselves as participants in the system as well as providers of the underpinning
methods.
The objective of the work was to enable evolutionary systemic change, which
holds the potential for transformation. The overall approach was rooted in collaborative
visioning. The authors see vision as an aspirational and yet responsible
sense of the future which is shared by multiple people, and acts as a reference
point for developing agreement and coordinating action. The architecture was
developed iteratively in an outside-in approach starting from the systemic context
and aims to enable everyone to be both choreographers and dancers, finding
and optimizing their contribution based on their unique capabilities and
characteristics.
The approach reframes boundaries as opportunities for mutual learning, in
contrast to barriers to be overcome or connections to be engineered, and it raises
questions of where boundaries could be designed, including the boundaries
around organizations themselves. It enables collaborative activities to be identified
which cannot be handled by transactional interaction alone.
The authors welcome dialogue to feed a process of mutual learning
with others.

Roger Duck

Our article Designing Freedom Together is a case study of enabling exploration of transformational systemic change. At its heart is the collaborative development of a visionary whole system transition architecture, in which boundaries are viewed as opportunities for mutual learning. The specific context was regional transport, but the methodology is of more general application. We would de delighted to exchange ideas and experience with others in the interest of mutual learning. The paper is published in Organization Development Review, 2021, Vol 53, No 5.