“The Anticommunication Imperative”

Larry Richards wrote this paper and presented it at the 2009 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Olympia, WA.

There are times when a new idea needs to be protected from getting forced into old language – from having its newness ignored.  Those of us who wish to avoid having our new ideas and proposals stuffed into the framework of someone’s ideology may want to think in terms of anticommunication.

Anticommunication is not an opposition to communication – it’s an alternative that you can explore and refine, in addition to exploring and refining communication.  Herbert Brün invented anticommunication, and others are developing it.

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“Teaching Composition Facing the Power of the Respondent”

Mark Enslin wrote this paper in 1989.

It helps me to think of human relationships, including social design and activism, as a medium for composition and performance.

Mark Enslin is a regular teacher/student at the School for Designing a Society.

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Craft and Constraint, Clocks and Conversation

Here are downloadable files of Craft and Constraint, Clocks and Conversation – A Larry Richards Reader.

This is a compilation of writings from 1987 – 2007, including a paper that Larry Richards co-wrote with Rochelle Young, and an appendix containing writing by Annetta Pedretti and Stuart Umpleby.

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