Participant: Jude Lombardi
Format: Presentation and Conversation
Themes: recursion, paradigm, praxis

I will generate a multimedia presentation (video/lecture performance) that nests the concepts paradigm, recursion and praxis in ways that reflect my cybernetic experiences for understanding these terms. During the presentation I will explore the following questions:

• How do I define the terms paradigm, recursion and praxis according to a cybernetic way of thinking about such concepts?
• When might there be a triadic relationship (what does this mean) between the concepts paradigm, recursions, and praxis?
• How might the concepts paradigm, recursion and praxis generate a conversation about a society that I desire(s) to be an element of?

In regard to recursions, I will lean on the work of Heinz von Foerster in relation to Gertrude Stein’s use of the term insistence, and turn toward Gregory Bateson when offering a distinction between the concepts recursion, repetition and redundancy.

When talking about praxis, I will focus on how this term might relate to Humberto Maturana’s concepts about Structurally Determined Systems when living in languaging.
As for the concept of paradigm, I turn toward Herbert and Marianne Brün for describing and making distinctions between the terms paradigms, models, assumptions and premise.