A critique of Institutional Autopoietization and the Loss of the Social focused on breaking the cycle of institutional self-preservation. This episode asks how the paper can sharpen its autoimmune metaphor, streamline its theoretical ratchet, and strengthen anti-capture architecture with adversarial tools such as metric guillotines and disavowed-knowledge audits. Read More
Tag: Constraint Ratchet
Episode 44: Why Institutions Prioritize Metrics Over People: Institutional Autopoietization and the Loss of the Social
A deep dive into why institutions prioritize metrics over people. This episode explores institutional autopoietization, the constraint ratchet, legibility capture, organizational non-learning, scapegoating, affective capture, and the life-coherence corrective needed to restore institutions to the people and communities they were built to serve. Read More