(Cybernetic) Imperatives
Cybernetician Larry Richards has recently written a paper called The Anticommunication Imperative. In general, I recommend it, & in particular, I'd like to copy for you his list of 'imperatives', collected from a few sources & augmented by his newest one, which I happen to like quite a bit: If you seek the new, compose asynchronicity.
IMPERATIVES
Heinz von Foerster initiated a tradition, or what could become a tradition, when he articulated in the context of cybernetics a set of imperatives:
The Ethical Imperative: Act always so as to increase the number of choices.
The Aesthetical Imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act.
The Therapeutic Imperative: If you want to be yourself, change!
Klaus Krippendorf later formulated the following set:
The Aesthetic Imperative: Construct your own reality to see.
The Empirical Imperative: Invent as many alternative constructions as you can and enact them to experience the constraints on their viability.
The Self-Referential Imperative: Include yourself as a constituent of your own constructions.
The Ethical Imperative: Grant others that occur in your constructions at least the same capabilities that you employ in constructing them.
The Social Imperative: When communicating, preserve or open new possibilities for others.
In this tradition, I [Larry Richards] would like to add:
The Anticommunication Imperative: If you seek the new, compose asynchronicity.
Heinz von Foerster initiated a tradition, or what could become a tradition, when he articulated in the context of cybernetics a set of imperatives:
The Ethical Imperative: Act always so as to increase the number of choices.
The Aesthetical Imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act.
The Therapeutic Imperative: If you want to be yourself, change!
Klaus Krippendorf later formulated the following set:
The Aesthetic Imperative: Construct your own reality to see.
The Empirical Imperative: Invent as many alternative constructions as you can and enact them to experience the constraints on their viability.
The Self-Referential Imperative: Include yourself as a constituent of your own constructions.
The Ethical Imperative: Grant others that occur in your constructions at least the same capabilities that you employ in constructing them.
The Social Imperative: When communicating, preserve or open new possibilities for others.
In this tradition, I [Larry Richards] would like to add:
The Anticommunication Imperative: If you seek the new, compose asynchronicity.
This tradition of Imperative-writing has some overlap w/ a project of Jacob's & mine -- see: repertoire cards. (Perhaps especially th repertoire card entitled 'imperatives' which contains th text, "Speak only in imperatives.") Our project also plays w/ constructions & so points at Krippendorf's set of imperatives.
As always, I invite yr response.
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