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{{A| | {{A|systems|}}There is much talk in these pages of [[Models.Behaving.Badly|model]]s, [[narrative]], [[complexity]], [[systems theory]], and “[[high modernism]]” as the all-encompassing modern management [[dogma]] that knits all of these things together. | ||
Our fascination with [[algorithm]]s, [[big data]], [[artificial intelligence]] and [[The Singularity is Near - Book Review|exponentially accelerating technologisation]] leads us to believe we can [[Reductionism|reduce]] the world’s ''organisation'', and therefore its ''problems'', down to predictable, rationalisable, atomised units. | Our fascination with [[algorithm]]s, [[big data]], [[artificial intelligence]] and [[The Singularity is Near - Book Review|exponentially accelerating technologisation]] leads us to believe we can [[Reductionism|reduce]] the world’s ''organisation'', and therefore its ''problems'', down to predictable, rationalisable, atomised units. | ||
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Thus, a model is not just an inadequate representation of how a system behaves; it is a politically-enforced model that ''corrupts'' the behaviour of the system in itself.<ref>{{Author|Jane Jacobs}} makes the same observation about the modernist city planners of the 1940s and 1950s.</ref> | Thus, a model is not just an inadequate representation of how a system behaves; it is a politically-enforced model that ''corrupts'' the behaviour of the system in itself.<ref>{{Author|Jane Jacobs}} makes the same observation about the modernist city planners of the 1940s and 1950s.</ref> | ||
Also pitted against the [[Reductionism|reductionist]]s and the [[High modernism|high modernists]] are the systems theorists and complexity people, two of whom are featured in the video in the panel. Joe Norman | Also pitted against the [[Reductionism|reductionist]]s and the [[High modernism|high modernists]] are the systems theorists and complexity people, two of whom are featured in the video in the panel. Joe Norman<ref>https://youtu.be/qZagNxRZC_8<ref> makes an interesting assertion that, in any system, ''informality'' — arrangements outside the model or that the model cannot see and therefore treats as non-existent — are fundamental to its operation. Indeed, the “formal” parts of a system are just small islands in a sea of informal relations. | ||
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*[[The map and the territory]] | *[[The map and the territory]] | ||
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