UNKOWN UNDOING

COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 13 Jan 2009

Anthony Judge

Challenge of Incomprehensibility of Systemic Neglect

Introduction

The following exploration uses as its point of departure a much-cited "strategic" poem presented by Donald Rumsfeld as US Secretary of Defense. The cognitive categories of the poem, and what was omitted, are used to elaborate various ways of ordering strategies — possibly in the form of "periodic tables".

Deliberate use is made of Chinese traditional perspectives on such matters, notably in their relationship to governance. The point stressed is that there is a need for a paradigm shift to alternation between patterns of strategies, and interpretation, rather than depending on the possibility of finding a single pattern of strategies — lacking the requisite variety for the complexity of the challwnges of the times.

Incomprehensibility within existing analytical frameworks

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