Readable atlas · Release 0.35
Social complexity without the control-room fantasy
Models, interaction, power and practical judgement
A route from complexity science to a radically social account of organising and practice.
Follow this journey interactively
Take the sciences seriously
Nonlinearity, interaction and emergence provide real explanatory resources. They do not travel into social life without translation.
Put interaction at the centre
Continuity and change arise in the interweaving of intentions, identities and power relations rather than the execution of a plan held outside the system.
Meet a critical practitioner-scholar
Mowles uses complexity to sharpen practical judgement while resisting its conversion into another managerial technology of prediction and control.
Distinguish the meanings of complexity
The book treats complexity as plural and asks what changes when the subject is human social action rather than only a natural or computational system.
Return to situated practice
Practitioner inquiry supplies cases, tensions and voices through which relational and systemic claims can be tested rather than merely repeated.
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Taylor, B. P. (2026). Social complexity without the control-room fantasy. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/journeys/journey_social_complexity/