Abstract:This essay proposes that those seeking to build counter-power institutions and communities learn to think in terms of what I call "recursivity." Recursivity is an antiauthoritarian metric that helps bring about a sensitivity to feedback loops at multiple levels of organization. I begin by describing how technological systems and the socio-economic order co-constitute one-another around efficiency metrics. I then go on to define recursivity as social conditions that contain within them all of the parts and prac… Show more
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