December 2025 https://www.patternmaking.org/patternsvol4 “You are not going in circles. You are growing in them. Spiraling upward, applying old lessons to the unfathomable new.” – Allena Staples, Cow Parade A year like 2025 can make us feel like we are in a swirl. What felt important no longer feels quite right. We head in one direction, […]
[Sound because I was searching (in a lazy internet way) to see if anyone had coined ‘autopoeitic drift’ before me] Download file PDFRead file Preprints and early-stage research may not have been peer reviewed yet. Abstract This article proposes that Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities anticipates the systemic reflexivity that defines modern social and […]
The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework was designed by Ostrom and her colleagues from the Ostrom Workshop in 2005 to facilitate analysis of institution processes through which individual and collective choices occur. The IAD framework includes analyzing actors, norms, institutional settings, incentive structures, rules, and more. Social scientists have widely adopted the IAD framework […]
No information is lost by dropping the terminal 1s. Thus we may write the following form. The article linked below tells how forms of that order correspond to a family of digraphs called riffs and a family of graphs called rotes. The riff and rote for are shown in the next two Figures. Riff 2026 […]
I learned about this from Imaginary Worlds podcast Episode 288: Music of a Forbidden Planet from Eric Molinsky https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/music-of-a-forbidden-planet The First Electronic Filmscore-Forbidden Planet: A Conversation with Bebe Barron by Jane Brockman Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebe_and_Louis_Barron From ChatGPT: Forbidden Planet (1956) is one of the cleanest, most literal intersections of film music and cybernetics. The connection in one […]
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