It Matters What Systems Systematize Systems

Haraway keeps reminding: it matters what stories tell stories, what descriptions describe descriptions, and so forth.

I am going to put on trial (where the Committee will be the jury, I will be the person on trial and the Judge, and my dissertation will be a collection of documents, exhibits, etc).

I want to examine the Neoliberal Academy as a system (maybe fall back on General Systems Theory, Theory of Chaos, and also with sympoietic and autopoietic systems the Haraway describes in ch. 1) where thinking differently is suffocated by obsessions with predicting the future, the illusion of control, and the inevitable fatalistic, futuristic, deterministic rationalisms that send the crowds into either Apolcalyptic mood, or belief in some god, be it technology, science, religion, or anything else.

I will put on trial my future (ironic!) as a methodologist–either to answer Kuntz’s call to become a “responsible methodologst” (and whether such endeavor is even possible), or to find a way to exist in the present system.