Re: <nettime> Managing complexity?

[Joseph Rabie <joe@overmydeadbody.org>]

I would define complexity as the interaction between autonomous agents. An ecosystem is surely the prime example, with the multiple destinies of multiple species playing out in a circumscribed milieu, with limited resources, and so inevitably one at the expense of the other – or with one being the (unwilling) resource of the other. One might say that evolution is the unknowing arbitrator of the process as it throws out non-intentional permutations which allow each species to gain possible advantages.

Joe.




> Le 31 mars 2019 à 17:14, Allan Siegel <allan@allansiegel.info> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> As I recall ‘complexity’ as discussed extensively by Henri Lefebvre is related more to urbanism (as Joe mentioned) than management. Complexity is more about the politics and social realities relating to the ‘right to the city’ than managing systems. Managerial complexity invariably leads towards some technocratic abyss as opposed - let’s say - a more ideological based discourse.
> Best
> Allan
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