{"id":1964,"date":"2012-07-30T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:46:32","slug":"the-commons-the-milieu-the-space-of-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/the-commons-the-milieu-the-space-of-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"the commons, the milieu, the space of connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helene has a nice short inquiry into “Configuring yourself for the transformation<\/a><\/span>” the nature of “the milieu itself”. \u00a0\u00a0We’d been exploring ideas for how to define “the commons” as both a place and a trust, and a new paradigm for organizing people to make the world work as a whole. \u00a0I responded with what I feel is a nice\u00a0concise\u00a0statement of how self-organizing systems physically work. <\/em><\/p>\n

– 8\/27\/12 <\/em>Helene then also linked to this in her lovely elaboration of “the commons” approach and the systems thinking needed, as “Commons Sense for a Sustainable World”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Configuring Oneself for Transformation –<\/p>\n

Our system of systems is made of parts that we could consider as coexisting in a milieu, an environment that is not just a container with properties greater than the sum of the parts, but that has a substance, a density, a richness. Something exists \u201cin between\u201d the parts, from which the parts get some \u201cnutrients\u201d. Many metaphors can be used, call it a field of possibilities and potentiality, a collection of intangibles that would precipitate serendipity, attraction, connection, exchange, osmosis\u2026 the Noosphere\u2026 and that would finally lead to a metamorphosis.<\/p>\n

The Living We, as an ecology for transformative action, would strive to increase the richness of this field, this \u201cin between\u201d that would inspire, empower and enable people and organizations to \u201cconfigure themselves\u201d for transformation. Think of an operating ecosystem and API that would help form and channel realization, intentions, possibilities and transform them into outcomes and achievements by bootstrapping human agency and collective capability one step at the time in an exploratory and visible learning process.<\/p>\n

Helene Finidori 12\/3\/11 The Next Edge<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019d say “the milieu itself” is indeed endowed with and suggests a great richness of meanings, often tangible and relevant.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As the environment with which the parts of a system connect, it\u2019s where you find the pathways for reliable exchange\/communication between the parts.<\/p>\n

Reliable paths are what form the system\u2019s loops of relationships and their feedbacks, that define the \u201cinternal domain of organization\u201d by which society and the economy physically operate.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Exchanges of different types tend to be through specialized commons, or \u201cmarketplaces\u201d (as network \u201chubs\u201d). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They allow close connections between parts while they remain separate, like partnerships that allow independence.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmilieu\u201d is also the system\u2019s medium for unprecedented connections, for other levels of \u201cconversation\u201d as well as where the reliable ones develop.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Open exchange allows a diversity of original and unprecedented events occur, sometimes producing \u201chot beds\u201d (I also call network \u201chives\u201d) of irregular connection, that may have periods of being intensely creative, with waves of new things are being germinated.<\/p>\n

Even tightly controlled markets remain somewhat open to irregular connections, simply as markets are \u201cseparations that connect\u201d other things.<\/h3>\n

So as \u201cspaces in-between\u201d they also allow for the exchange of very remote signals.\u00a0 Sometimes those are at the level of \u201cmessages in a bottle\u201d one can pick out of the open stream to connect with very remote loops or energy centers.<\/p>\n

jlh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helene has a nice short inquiry into “Configuring yourself for the transformation” the nature of “the milieu itself”. \u00a0\u00a0We’d been exploring ideas for how to define “the commons” as both a place and a trust, and a new paradigm for organizing people to make the world work as a whole. \u00a0I responded with what I … Continue reading the commons, the milieu, the space of connection<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-among-best-2","category-teaching","category-econn","category-theory","category-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}