This book is the first to provide a general theory of self-destruction in complex systems. The volume suggests a unified theory of systemic self-destruction applicable to natural, social and cultural phenomena.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Saving 'Self-Destruction' from Itself at the Times of COVID and War
2. Some Thoughts on Systems and Their Self-Destruction
3. Studying Communicative Mechanisms of Self-Destruction in Complex Systems: Structures, Modes, and Self-Reinforcing Dynamics
4. Reproduction and Eventual Dissolution of Some New Guinea Secret Cults in the Light of the Overlapping Generations Model
5. Entropy Dynamics and Self-Destruction
6. Signalling, Vagueness, and Meaning in Political Ritual
7. Semantic Inflation and Systemic Breakups in Nature and Society
8. Reading John Read's Ten Days That Shook The World: Tacit Segmentation, Robust Proximal Codes, and the Elusive Meaning of "Counter-Revolution" in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922
9. Autoimmunity, Life, and Death in Deconstruction
