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Dissociation

the error of simultaneity

A dissociated organisation knows two things that do not fit together, and acts as if that were no problem. Its memos say an approach does not work; its practice keeps the same approach running. The gap does not lead to correction. It persists, year after year, without anyone having to choose.

The cause usually lies in how the organisation is set up, and it shows in recurring patterns: a number that takes the place of the actual work, a form that stays in place after its substance has gone, a decision that gives the problem a new name without solving it.

The four series below follow the pattern from a single organisation to the European Union.

Dissociation · the error of simultaneity

— · 04Four series, one patternHover over a node — or tab through them — to read where each series cuts into the pattern.

Series I · Dissociated Organisations. The ground pattern: how a single organisation keeps two registers in operation at once, and why the difference provokes no correction.

Series II · Reverberation. How the pattern propagates beyond the organisation that houses it, and why fighting it in the wrong place only reinforces it.

Series III · Notes from Within. The same pattern seen from the position of those who work inside it, up to and including the legislator; with a synthesis that draws the series together.

Series IV · The Dissociated Union. The same pattern at the level of the European Union.

New here? Start with the synthesis of Series III, then read Series I. The counterpart of dissociation sits under Grammar: rules that outlive their reason, in the series Orphaned Design.