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The need for a psychodynamics of libidinal economies

by philipjboxer on February 20, 2025February 23, 2025

Questioning sovereignty It is tempting to think of a corporation or even an industry as an ecosystem, within which “leadership becomes less about control and more about navigating through complex and diverse business eco-systems.”(Western, 2013)…

Overcoming the counter-resistance of sponsoring systems

by philipjboxer on June 13, 2024June 19, 2024

The value stairs and the double diamond provide ways of thinking about potential maladaptation. Maladaptation presents opportunities to develop new forms of value creation that involve lifting the strategy ceiling. Pursuing these opportunities involves a…

Why should Zizek’s misreading of Lacan matter?

by philipjboxer on February 24, 2024June 13, 2024

Question: I need to be clearer about why Zizek is wrong in your terms (and why I should care). His reading of Schelling seems to be entirely through a Lacanian lens – or at least…

The Doubling of the Double Task

by philipjboxer on February 22, 2024

Question: Can you please tell me, in as simple terms as possible, the meaning that you have for “the doubling of the double task”. I think I understand you and have visited your blog, but…

Balancing normative and ‘edge’ roles in turbulent environments

by philipjboxer on December 27, 2023March 1, 2025

Introduction We return now to the issues raised by the first blog in this series: what is involved in the doubling of the Harold Bridger’s double task (Bridger 1990)?[1] In order to compete effectively in…

Triple articulation and the quadripod of a living system

by philipjboxer on November 28, 2023March 1, 2025

In the last blog, I described how the variety of possible 1st order behavioral closures constituted superposed states representing all the possible behaviors able to be realized by a living system. This restricted the possible…

The Three Asymmetries necessary to describing agency in living biological systems

by philipjboxer on November 16, 2023February 26, 2025

Special thanks go to John Kineman who has acted as a reader for this blog, providing invaluable help in clarifying my thinking.  I alone bear responsibility for the end result! The need to surrender sovereignty,…

What might it mean to ‘surrender sovereignty’ using biological metaphors?

by philipjboxer on November 14, 2023February 27, 2025

The Tavistock Institute community was well aware of the challenges presented by ecosystems (Trist and Murray 1997), addressing the different nature of turbulent environments (Emery and Trist 1965), the referent or regulative organizations that arose…

In which socio-technical open systems reach a limit

by philipjboxer on October 24, 2023February 27, 2025

I wrote a blog recently on how 21st Century Capitalism differs from 20th Century Capitalism (Boxer 2023). It argued that Marx worked with two dialectics: not only the dialectic between use-value and exchange value, but…

How does 21st century capitalism differ from 20th century capitalism?

by philipjboxer on August 14, 2023November 16, 2023

The growth of the Q-sectors reflects a change in the structure of the economy i.e., a change in the way 21st century capitalism works. This change is a consequence of digitalization that is providing the…

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  • Triple articulation and the quadripod of a living system
  • The Three Asymmetries necessary to describing agency in living biological systems
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