Managing is Fractalicious

Fractalicious ManagingPeter Bond Learning Futures [email protected]. http://e-

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Disciplines1. Conventional (systems) theory of managing2. Complex systems science. Theory of complex or nonlinear systems

behaviour.Biology of Cognition Humberto Maturana and Francisco

Varela (biologists, neuroscientists)Unconventional explanation of language

Supracritical systems behaviour —Stuart Kauffman

3. Actor-Network Theory (John Law)4. Art and agency (Alfred Gell)

Language is ‘….a system of cooperative

consensual interaction between organisms’

(Maturana & Varela: 1980, p. 31),

a process that results in

‘...the creation of a cooperative domain of

interactions between actors or speakers through

the development of a common frame of reference’

(Maturana & Varela: 1980, p. 57).

Frame of reference worth comparing with

Bourdieu’s habitus.

Conversing is an intertwinedor braided flow of emotioning and

languaging

Coordinated (social) actions or behaviours—LANGUAGING.

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Physiological domain

Relational or behavioural domain

IN CONVERSATIONS THERE IS CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN FLOWINGINTERNAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES AND EXTERNAL BEHAVIOURS

consensual domain

coordinations of coordinations of action

we observe

She loves me

She’s angry

She loves me

I love youI love youI love youI hate you

CONVERSATION ARE UNPREDICTABLE – NONLINEAR - COMPLEX

Material RESULTS

Fractalicious Things

Fractal: Repeating or iterating self-similar pattern.

Fractalicious Managing

Managing:

Complex, nonlinear, unpredictable

Emotioning

Polytechnical

Inventive, innovating process

Habitus generation process

Languaging (a system of co-ordinating actions)

System maintaining/destroying

Tends to supracriticality (conversations)

Meaning creating/destroying too.