Self-Destruction of Complex Systems : Communicative and Structural Aspects (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Saving ‘Self-Destruction’ from Itself at the Times of COVID and War

2. Some Thoughts on Systems and Their Self-Destruction?

3. ?Studying Communicative Mechanisms of Self-Destruction in Complex Systems: Structures, Modes, and Self-Reinforcing Dynamics

4. ?Reproduction and Eventual Dissolution of Some New Guinea Secret Cults in the Light of the Overlapping Generations Model

5. Entropy Dynamics and Self-Destruction

6. Signalling, Vagueness, and Meaning in Political Ritual

7. Semantic Inflation and Systemic Breakups in Nature and Society

8. Reading John Read’s?Ten Days That Shook The World:?Tacit Segmentation, Robust Proximal Codes, and the Elusive Meaning of “Counter-Revolution” in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922

9. Autoimmunity, Life, and Death in Deconstruction