Cards for Insight: MKR, part 1
Cards for Insight: Helping you reflect, reframe and play
In a network, questions, structures, boundary objects, comments, agents, cards and multi-order cybernetic conversational intelligence patterning and mapping.
Card: Living Society
Negotiated by all agents,
for which societal means
and ends, and the patterns
of relationship, play and
purpose forming between
them, are of vital interest.
MKR: Modular Knowledge Repositories
Modular process ontologies and large finite set pattern, pattern languages, co-evolving with structures, processes and knowledge flows. With book and article excerpts as building blocks, with boundary objects one of the products and outcomes.
Boundary Object: Living Societies
“Another characteristic of a living society is that it requires food. In a museum the crystals are kept under glass cases; in zoological gardens the animals are fed. Having regard to the universality of reactions with environment, the distinction is not quite absolute. It cannot, however, be ignored.
The crystals are not agencies requiring the destruction of elaborate societies derived from the environment; a living society is such an agency. The societies which it destroys are its food. This food is destroyed by dissolving it into somewhat simpler social elements. It has been robbed of something. Thus, all societies require interplay with their environment; and in the case of living societies this interplay takes the form of robbery.
The living society may, or may not, be a higher type of organism than the food which it disintegrates. But whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, The Order of Nature, p. 105
Related:
“I imagine a world in which Whitehead takes the place of Heidegger.”
— Steven Shaviro, Without Criteria
Image: Moebius
