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A Kluge is like Origami: Both Involve Self-Emergent Properties as the Result of Actions Changing an Event Stream Source: Allen, Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems, 1997.TRANSCRIPT
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Disaster Responses Are Space-Time
KlugesGus Koehler,
Time Structures, Inc., and USC
Sacramento Center, Calif.
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A disaster does not exist within linear time; A disaster’s existence, its Performance, is time.
– Cities are unique nested space-time fractal performances
– Earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods are unique, nested space-time fractals and are performances too
– The character of a disaster’s performance is the experience of its disruption of a city’s performance leading to unpredictable, emergent structures propagating disruptive event streams
– A disaster response involves the design of local kluges or patches to
change the character of emergent local outcomes by changing the propagating direction of event streams
– Response kluges as fractal space time performances produce their own intended and unintended short and long-term consequences and are in turn changed via feedback.
TIME STRUCTURES
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A Kluge is like Origami: Both Involve Self-Emergent Properties as the Result of Actions Changing an Event Stream
Source: Allen, Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems, 1997.
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A Disaster-Kluge Performance Exhibits a Continuously changing Character
• How to intervene appropriately to minimize undesirable effects of a disaster-city fractal crash?
• Such a crash involves proximity and envelopment of the disaster’s elements and the city’s expressing the time-space dimension as a local fractal space-time collapse
• Crash performance and the emergent resulting structures is evolutionary rather than causal and calculable; it is an unknowable performance producing an unpredictable character
• Disaster response involves engaging the performance of the damaged time ecology with a kluge or patch to ameliorate its undesirable character
• Kluges are historical structures: literally creations of history. They represent not a perfect product of engineering, but a patchwork of odd sets of things pieced together when and where opportunities arose. A kluge itself is a new space-time fractal generating its own event stream.
• A Kluge is a local theatrical movement involving “orientability”, “continuity”, “connectivity”,
“envelopment”, and novelty that changes or reinforces the disaster performance event streams.
• Knowledge necessary to design an effective kluge comes from observing the disaster’s performance and changing character
• Thus the key is the practice of designing, observing, and evolving kluges in response to changing character of the performance
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Kluge Tactics
Kluge design complexity is related to the degree of difficulty associated with the discovery, and simultaneous application of fractal space-time rules as they apply to multiple disaster fractals and their event streams producing the disaster’s performance.
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Kluge Patchs Broken Fractal Space-Time Performance Networks
• Fractal Time: A nesting cascade of multiple passing nows occurring simultaneously on differing uni-dimenionsal event-streams within shifting contexts. (Vrobel, 2011)
• Understanding a disaster involves understanding the morphodynamic rules of the fractal space-time nesting of this destructive process, BUT:– Responders see what they know, not new rules – Order of new rule learning is inadequate to the task– Apply kludges to “driver nodes” of emerging networks
but where are such nodes?
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Cognitive Factors Shaping Kluges
• Clumsy apparatus of self-control (upper hand to reflexes)
• Confirmation bias of being always right• Motivated reasoning to protect our beliefs• Contextually driven nature of memory or
what happened in the past applies here (fractal time)
• Point: hot systems dominate reasoningGary Marcus, Kluge, p. 154