Organization

General Definition

Traditionally associated with hierarchy or adaptive structure, functional organization in the OEC designates the capacity of a material system to operate consistently without a prior plan. It is an emergent function, not an imposed form.

Ontological Variations in the Ontology of Emergent Complexity

Emergent Organization Without Model

Organization does not result from a plan, but from local reorganizations of matter.

Symbolic Organization as Consistency

What organizes is the symbolic gesture that temporarily fixes meaning.

Plastic Functional Organization

All organization is transitory, plastic, always at risk of dissolution.

Organization without Structure

It rejects the idea of stable structure. To organize is to operate locally with symbolic plasticity, not to build fixed forms.

Organization through Instability

All consistency emerges as a symbolic response to unstable forces. Instability is the engine of provisional consistency.

Organization as Symbolic Writing

Functional organization is the result of a symbolic inscription that locally and provisionally fixes a regime.