Category:Network Theory
Material related to networks but also related fields such as complexity, cybernetic systems, etc ...
Key Quotes
"Noise, then, is not a menace to order, but a rich background of random associations that provide open potentialities for novelty. Rigid crystallization locks a system into one form in which change is not possible; it can only repeat itself ad infinitum, ad nauseam. The mother-daughter pair will clone themselves forever in an eternal steady state ... but the appearance of the deadly and dying male disrupts all that through the introduction of loss and noise. A chaotic system in which noise draws a system from one basin of attraction to another is, however, a more complex system in which evolution and novel emergent states become possible. In the case of the spirochete, we encounter the most basic distinction of dividing the one into two by halving."
- William Irwin Thompson [1]
Key Resources
Key Articles
* Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, describes the difference between decentralization and distribution, distinguishing how it is applied logically, architecturally, and politically: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274
Key Books
- The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks. by Joshua Cooper Ramo. Little Brown, 2017
Pages in category "Network Theory"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 221 total.
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- Abundance Engineering vs Scarcity Engineering
- Adaptive Cycle
- Adjacent Possible
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- Alchemy as the Forerunner of Complexity Theory
- Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder
- Aphanipoiesis
- Autodidactic Universe
- Axiomatization of Socio-Economic Principles for Self-Organizing Institutions
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C
- Cascading Phenomena
- Catastrophe Bifurcation
- Cesar Hidalgo on the Meritocracy and Topocracy of Networks
- Change Dynamics
- City as a Grid
- Collective Action After Networks
- Common Multilevel Patterns of Self-Organization in Living Systems
- Commons as a Rhizomatic Movement
- Competency Network
- Complex Networks
- Complex Potential States Theory
- Complexity Science
- Complexity Theory
- Complexity Thresholds and Complexity Transitions
- Connected Consciousness
- Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
- Connectography
- Constructal Law
- Cooperative Networks in the Italian Economy
- Crypto-Crowdfunding
- Cultivating Flows
- Cultural Multilevel Selection
- Cyberdeutocracy
- Cybernetic Balance
- Cybernetic Planning
- Cybernetics
- Cybernetics and Governance
- Cybernetics as an Antihumanism
- Cybernetics of the Commons
- Cyberocracy
- Cyclic Motifs in the Sardex Monetary Network
D
- David Loye
- Decentralization
- Decentralized Network Governance
- Dissipative Structures
- Distributed Natural Grid
- Distributed Networks and the Law
- Distributed Networks, Transformational Communities and the New Monastics
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Distributed Process
- Distribution of Everything
- Duncan Watts
- Dynamic Nucleus Model of Liquid Decentralised Unity
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- Federated Scaling
- Five Lessons on Peer-to-Peer Leadership from Peer-to-Peer Computer Networks
- Flexible Self Under Hyper-Networked Conditions
- Flow Network
- Flows, Networks, and Territories
- Forward Compatibility
- Fourth Order Cybernetics
- Fractal Organisation Theory
- Fritjof Capra on a Systems View of Life
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- Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman on the Asymmetric Nature of Global Networks
- Hierarchies and Meshworks Are Always Mixed
- Hierarchy
- Hinge Events
- How Globalization and the Network State Transform the Insights of Poulantzas on the State
- How Network Governance Adds Value
- Human Metasystem Transition Theory
- Human Society as a Superorganism
- Human Swarm
- Hyper-Objects
- Hypermediation
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M
- Major Transitions in Big History
- Manuel DeLanda on Assemblage Theory and Social Institutions
- Manuel Lima on the Power of Networks
- Marc Santolini
- Maria Chehonadskih on Bogdanov's Theory of Organization
- Market Networks
- Measurement Problem in Quantum Physics
- Measures of Social Connectedness in Cities
- Measuring the Complexity of Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Measuring the Success and Efficiency of and within Collaborative Networks
- Meme Machine
- Memes
- Meta-Networking
- Metasystem Transition Theory
- Metasystem Transitions
- Metropolitan Revolution
- Micro-Solar Swarms
- Multi-Organizational Networks
- Murmurations Protocol
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- Nathan Schneider on Networked Governance in Web3 and Cryptoeconomics
- Nathaniel Virgo on the Necessity of Extended Autopoiesis
- Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics
- Netarchical Capitalism
- Netarchy
- Netocracy
- Network Analysis of State Formations
- Network Ecologies
- Network Economy
- Network Effects
- Network Form in the Futures Studies Field
- Network Governance
- Network Nations
- Network Orchestrators
- Network Self
- Network Society
- Network Society Project
- Network State
- Network Theory
- Network Topology
- Networked Islands of Competence
- Networked Participatory Scholarship
- Networked Planetary Governance
- Networked Power
- Networkologies
- Networks and the New Mutualism
- Networks Effects Bible
- New Network Theory 2007
- Noah Raford on Collapse Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Complex Social Systems
- Non-Movements
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- P2P Society as an Autopoietic System
- Pace Layering
- Pace Layering in Complex Systems and Civilizations
- Patterns That Connect
- Planetary Tipping Points
- Platform Society
- Polycentricity
- Post-Sovereignty Network Legitimacy
- Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
- Principal Agent Problem
- Progressive vs. Conservative Governance
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- Scale-Linking
- School of Networks
- Science of Complex Systems
- Science of Self-Organised Criticality
- Second Order Cybernetics
- Self Organizing Collective Intelligences
- Self-Organized Network Governance
- Self-Organizing Universe
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Social Dilemmas
- Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention
- Social Tipping Points
- Social Traps
- Sociocybernetics
- Spatial and Temporal Scale-Linking
- Struggle between Networks vs Hierarchies
- Superagency
- Superhubs
- Supermodular Goods
- Swarm
- Swarm Economy
- SwarmFest
- Swarmism
- Symmathesy
- Sympoiesis