Emergent Strategy

URL : https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

Looks very interesting to me in that it appears to draw inspiration from [[emergence]] and some of the [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] stuff.

brown’s “emergent strategy” for activists revels not in conflict with corporate opponents but in apparitions of friendship in online threads and tips for weaving consensus process.

– [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]

Based on some of the ideas of [[Octavia E. Butler]].

Log

[2021-07-17 Sat]

Started reading Emergent Strategy yesterday. I found the writing style a bit - can't think of the word - loose, maybe? At first. More like it is a blog post than a book. Kind of like a journal. With use of CAPS in places, and punctuation like?! Maybe I'm just too used to some of these academic books. In a way it's kind of refreshing to have something a bit more personal rather than dry and dense.

All that aside - the ideas are great. Absolutely spot on to my interests. Tying various complexity / evolutionary and adaptive stuff to social and [[Political organisation]]. Explicitly making the link. As well as [[Octavia Butler]] related stuff.

Octavia Butler / (amb)

• All successful life is (Fractal)
• Adaptable, (Adaptive)
• Opportunistic, (Nonlinear/Iterative)
• Tenacious, (Resilient/Transformative Justice)
• Interconnected, and (Interdependent/Decentralized)
• Fecund. (Creates More Possibilities)
• Understand this. (Scholarship, Reflection)
• Use it. (Practice/Experiment)
• Shape God. (Intention)

I like the Elements of Emergent Strategy very much.

• Fractal. The relationship between small and large.
• Adaptive. How we change.
• Interdependence and decentralization. Who we are and how we share.
• Non-linear and iterative. The pace and pathways of change.
• Resilience and transformative justice. How we recover and transform.
• Creating more possibilities. How we move towards life.