Institutional form,
capacity, and possibility
Project Anthropography
An inquiry into how institutions, resources, relationships, and forms of authority can be composed into possibilities that inherited structures do not yet permit.
Essay
Institutional Recomposition
On institutional capacity, inherited identity, and the unrealized forms of action that become possible when resources are recomposed into new relations, objectives, and effects.
Institutions frequently contain more possible forms of action than their present organization permits them to exercise.
Project Anthropography examines the gap between what an institution presently is and what its resources, relationships, intelligence, legitimacy, authority, and physical forms could be composed to produce.
Its work is concerned not merely with improving inherited operations, but with identifying capacities, objectives, and institutional forms that remain unrealized because the institution continues to interpret its possibilities through what it already is.
Capacity
Capacity is not simply what an institution possesses. It is what its resources can become capable of producing through their composition.
Identity
Institutional identity determines which resources, relationships, functions, and objectives become visible as legitimate possibilities.
Recomposition
Recomposition changes the relations, objectives, and transductions through which an institutional form is constituted.
Further Essays
Underlying investigations.
Social Discomposition and the Nature of Individuality
On individuality as an abstraction, and the social conditions that return it to the field from which it emerges.
The Semantic Closure of Human Language
On semantic operators, linguistic closure, and the structures that pre-orient what can become intelligible.
What could an institution do that its present form does not permit it to see?
Project Anthropography is beginning to apply institutional recomposition to specific organizations, resources, constraints, relationships, and unrealized possibilities.
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