Creative Commons

Differential Governance: Coordination through Change among Systems Sharing No Common Ontology

Coordinated action on an interdependent environmental field requires that parties describing the field in different terms act together on the same processes. The usual route to such coordination is agreement about states: a shared account of what a quantity is, and a shared targe...

From Celestial Configuration to Effective Environment: A Formal Analysis of Medium, Delay and Individuation in Deep-Sea Life - The Deep-Sea Astrological Conjecture as a Conditional Thought Experiment

Any system that holds celestial states to influence life, whatever its empirical standing, implicitly assumes something very strong in physical terms: that the environment is transparent to external signals, so that the input received by an organism equals the celestial state its...

Differential Governance: Coordination through Change among Systems Sharing No Common Ontology

Coordinated action on an interdependent environmental field requires that parties describing the field in different terms act together on the same processes. The usual route to such coordination is agreement about states: a shared account of what a quantity is, and a shared targe...

From Celestial Configuration to Effective Environment: A Formal Analysis of Medium, Delay and Individuation in Deep-Sea Life - The Deep-Sea Astrological Conjecture as a Conditional Thought Experiment

Any system that holds celestial states to influence life, whatever its empirical standing, implicitly assumes something very strong in physical terms: that the environment is transparent to external signals, so that the input received by an organism equals the celestial state its...

Generativity Exploitation Propagation: A Conditional Network Model of Cascades and Buffers

An actor whose effective generative capability is constrained may face altered opportunities, pressures, and returns when choosing how to continue. One possible response creates a second exploitative relation; cooperation, support, exit, adaptation, and lost practical capacity ca...

Generative Commons and Realization Conditions: Non-Rival Forms, Effective Access, and Standing

A language, a research practice, or a body of technique is used without being consumed, and it is also transformed by the using. Speakers coin words, shift meanings, and change conventions, so a linguistic commons at one time is partly the product of its participants at earlier t...

Revocable Infrastructure and Generative Dependency: An Open-Then-Enclose Mechanism

A party contributes a method to a commons and opens the infrastructure required to develop it. Others learn the method, build on it, train teams, and develop extensions, and their trajectories become organized around that infrastructure. The party then closes the infrastructure o...

Enabling, Constraining, Preventing, and Leaving Open: Existing Schemes of Human–Nature and Cosmic Governance under a Generative Relational Description

Governance of the relations between human activity and the wider natural and cosmic field is conducted through a large number of schemes whose vocabularies have developed separately. Precaution, adaptive governance, resilience management, environmental law, earth-system governanc...

A Generative Relational Theory of Temporal Injustice in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems: A Preliminary Discussion

This paper proposes a generative relational theory of temporal injustice for large-scale heterogeneous systems. Its premise, drawn from a companion theory of temporal emergence, is that in such systems the local temporal structures of the parts may be compatible wherever they ove...

Prior Use and the Distribution of Observational Capacity in State-Dependent Governance

A governing rule whose content depends on the dynamical state of the system it governs requires that the state be determined. Where the system exhibits a critical value above which ordinary conduct produces irreversible foreclosure, the determination that the system has approache...

Ontological Excess, Epistemic Partiality, and Operational Limitation in the Governance of Relational Change: A Preliminary Discussion of a Problem Class and Its Research Agenda

Governance theory has developed for fields whose participants can be addressed, whose extent can be represented by a governing party, and whose condition can be altered by that party's action. A class of governance problems satisfies none of these conditions. The relations betwee...

Irreversible Foreclosure and the Allocation of Justificatory Burden in Governance beyond Epistemic Reach

Governance of the relations between human activity and the wider natural and cosmic field operates under a scale relation that the governance of human affairs has generally been spared. The field within which the relations obtain substantially exceeds both the portion of it that...

Enabling, Constraining, Preventing, and Leaving Open: Existing Schemes of Human–Nature and Cosmic Governance under a Generative Relational Description

Governance of the relations between human activity and the wider natural and cosmic field is conducted through a large number of schemes whose vocabularies have developed separately. Precaution, adaptive governance, resilience management, environmental law, earth-system governanc...

Prior Use and the Distribution of Observational Capacity in State-Dependent Governance

A governing rule whose content depends on the dynamical state of the system it governs requires that the state be determined. Where the system exhibits a critical value above which ordinary conduct produces irreversible foreclosure, the determination that the system has approache...

Irreversible Foreclosure and the Allocation of Justificatory Burden in Governance beyond Epistemic Reach

Governance of the relations between human activity and the wider natural and cosmic field operates under a scale relation that the governance of human affairs has generally been spared. The field within which the relations obtain substantially exceeds both the portion of it that...

Governing Open Complex Giant Generative Relational Systems beyond Representation and Reach: A Synoptic Discussion of Systems, Scales, and Arrangements

Three companion papers establish results about the governance of systems that exceed what any party can represent or reach, and a fourth constitutes the class of problems such systems present. This paper adds the survey of the systems themselves that the four leave to be made. It...

A Generative Relational Theory of Temporal Emergence in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems

This paper develops a generative relational theory of temporal emergence for large-scale heterogeneous systems. Its object is the constitution of temporal organization from change: the minimal relational conditions under which difference, comparability, recurrence, and ordering g...

A Generative Relational Theory of Temporal Injustice in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems: A Preliminary Discussion

This paper proposes a generative relational theory of temporal injustice for large-scale heterogeneous systems. Its premise, drawn from a companion theory of temporal emergence, is that in such systems the local temporal structures of the parts may be compatible wherever they ove...

Ontological Excess, Epistemic Partiality, and Operational Limitation in the Governance of Relational Change: A Preliminary Discussion of a Problem Class and Its Research Agenda

Governance theory has developed for fields whose participants can be addressed, whose extent can be represented by a governing party, and whose condition can be altered by that party's action. A class of governance problems satisfies none of these conditions. The relations betwee...

Governing Open Complex Giant Generative Relational Systems beyond Representation and Reach: A Synoptic Discussion of Systems, Scales, and Arrangements

Three companion papers establish results about the governance of systems that exceed what any party can represent or reach, and a fourth constitutes the class of problems such systems present. This paper adds the survey of the systems themselves that the four leave to be made. It...