ORI-C Books
The Coherence of the Living
Reading systems before they tip: a grammar of observation for systems under constraint, from the psyche to institutions.
A system does not tip at the moment we notice it. It first loses its margins, then its capacity to absorb what happens to it, and the tipping only makes visible a loss already incurred.
For this it proposes a grammar of observation applicable to objects that have little in common: a cell, a psyche, an organisation, an institution. What these objects share
The book follows that thread from the life sciences to social systems, by way of transition thresholds, panarchy and the effects of informational saturation. It ends on ORI-C, the
Table of contents
- What the sciences rediscover in living systems
- From stability to viability
- Thresholds and transitions: when a system no longer responds as before
- Panarchy: the hidden cycles of transformation
- Information, saturation and the loss of discernment
- ORI-C: a grammar of observation for systems under constraint