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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...

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...

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...

When AI Generativity Becomes Human-Like: A Perturbative Field-Theoretic Analysis of Relational Coupling

This paper asks whether artificial relational capacity can alter a social system's ability to regenerate human coupling even when artificial and human agents are assumed to be indistinguishable at the level of their generative dynamics. The question is therefore moved from agent...

What If AI Learns How You Generate the New? - A Preliminary Discussion of the Normalisation and Political Economy of Generativity

Artificial intelligence systems have been developed for the most part on accumulated human artefacts. Systems that learn from recorded practice take a different object, since a demonstration, a workflow, a tool-use history, or a sequence of decisions records the course of an acti...

What If AI Learns How You Generate the New? - A Preliminary Discussion of the Normalisation and Political Economy of Generativity

Artificial intelligence systems have been developed for the most part on accumulated human artefacts. Systems that learn from recorded practice take a different object, since a demonstration, a workflow, a tool-use history, or a sequence of decisions records the course of an acti...

When AI Generativity Becomes Human-Like: A Perturbative Field-Theoretic Analysis of Relational Coupling

This paper asks whether artificial relational capacity can alter a social system's ability to regenerate human coupling even when artificial and human agents are assumed to be indistinguishable at the level of their generative dynamics. The question is therefore moved from agent...

Loop Observables and the Gauge Structure of Interpretation: A Preliminary Discussion of Evaluation without an External Frame

An assessment of a social arrangement is made from some interpretive frame, and no frame stands outside the history it assesses. The difficulty this creates is familiar and is usually met either by privileging one frame or by abandoning the possibility of frame-independent conten...

The Dependence of Articulation on Relation: A Preliminary Discussion of Being, Knowledge, and the Limits of Self-Representation

Generative Relational Being holds that beings are constituted in relation and that knowledge emerges from relational dynamics. Taken together these two commitments generate a difficulty the framework has not addressed. If knowledge emerges from relational dynamics, and a formal s...

The Admissibility of Representational Transformation: A Preliminary Discussion of Alienation and the Restoration of Distinction

Every representation of a person by an institution transforms what it represents, and every such transformation loses something. The observation is not by itself a complaint, since a representation that lost nothing would be unusable, and a theory holding all such loss to be unju...

Co-Experience and the Legibility of Contribution: A Preliminary Discussion of Evaluation by Non-Participants

Contributions that sustain households, workplaces, communities and research fields are routinely absent from the records by which those same formations are assessed. The standard explanations locate the absence in power, in exclusion, or in the cost of observation. This paper pro...

The Admissibility of Representational Transformation: A Preliminary Discussion of Alienation and the Restoration of Distinction

Every representation of a person by an institution transforms what it represents, and every such transformation loses something. The observation is not by itself a complaint, since a representation that lost nothing would be unusable, and a theory holding all such loss to be unju...

What If AI Learns How You Generate the New? - A Preliminary Discussion of the Normalisation and Political Economy of Generativity

Artificial intelligence systems have been developed for the most part on accumulated human artefacts. Systems that learn from recorded practice take a different object, since a demonstration, a workflow, a tool-use history, or a sequence of decisions records the course of an acti...

The Jurisprudence and Ethics of Creation and Destruction: A Generative Relational Perspective

A party that has made something may often unmake it, and the law of property has treated that as among the strongest marks of ownership. This paper concerns cases where the category does not apply: a structure that several parties made together, that none of them owns, and that h...

"Qiutong Cunyi" in Diplomacy: Invariance in the Topology and Geometry of Coupled Generative Systems

A diplomatic formula of the twentieth century holds that parties should seek what they have in common while preserving what they do not. Read as a claim about structure it asks what two parties can hold together without either adopting the other's terms. This paper develops that...

An Anatomy of Injustice in the Emergence of Knowledge Among Heterogeneous Systems: A Preliminary Discussion in Generative Relational Terms of the Diplomatic Case

A claim made by one party to another travels a course before it becomes anything the two hold in common. It is rendered into an event, construed at the far end by procedures the sending party does not run, registered or left unregistered in whatever description the parties share,...

"Qiutong Cunyi" in Diplomacy: Invariance in the Topology and Geometry of Coupled Generative Systems

A diplomatic formula of the twentieth century holds that parties should seek what they have in common while preserving what they do not. Read as a claim about structure it asks what two parties can hold together without either adopting the other's terms. This paper develops that...

Diplomacy in a World of Heterogeneous Knowledge Systems: Exploring Generative Relational Systems Perspectives and Formal Models

International arrangements are made among parties that differ in what counts, for each of them, as showing that a claim is so. This paper treats that difference as its object, taking a knowledge system to be the verification component of a normative order given dynamics of its ow...

Rethinking the Gift in Diplomacy: Generative Relational Knowledge Emergence through Encounter

A gift asserts nothing that could be checked. It carries no proposition whose truth is at issue, and it discloses no procedure by which a content might be substantiated. It nonetheless does something that statements do poorly, and this paper asks what. The account offered is that...