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informative and very intelligent discussion on very important issues within which
the creativity itself was reflected.
Special thanks to Vadim Gennadievich Novikov, whose friendship and word of
honor I highly value, for a long time helping me in my work and life, which once
provided me with an excellent tool for organizing work with texts and making it
possible to share them with others through publications.
I am grateful to Nikolai Vyacheslavovich Nilov, my publisher, who drew attention
to my work and encouraged me to compile this book, which is, first of all, an
attempt to turn the collection into a coherent text. Acquaintance with this person
became one of the most amazing events in my life for a number of reasons.
And, of course, I am grateful to those women whom
I loved and tortured and who
loved and tortured me: without you I would not become who I am. Forgive me
and ... thanks!
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What human manages
And in fact – than if you are distracted from discrepancies in the direction of
general ideas?
Management wins death. Anyone who learns to govern higher orders and higher
activities will be overcome by death in the highest sense. Therefore, all
management begins with self-government, with self-consistency. For death is the
end of control, the end of the cybernetic process. That is why the management is
linked to the intention, with direction, with a vision, with a look into the future,
with script.
The fact that most people at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries know and
think about science are knowledge and thinking about the science of the "era of
scientific and technological progress" (Nauchno-Technicheskiy Progress – NTP)
that arose with the beginning of the era of capitalism in
conditions and forms that
arose during the "long XVI century ", in brief and in general described further in
the section" History of European technology and neoconomics ". As a kind of
knowledge aimed at a "sober and unbiased" study of the nature of any things, it
nevertheless served the interests of capitalist society, as well as institutions of
public administration for them – whether it was a society of the countries of the
North Atlantic Alliance or Council of Mutual Economic Assistance. Simultaneously
with the emergence of the new European science, economics emerged as part of
this scientific character, on the one hand, and how the science of the
management of society itself, parallel to this scientific phenomenon as a social
phenomenon in general (literally translated and broad, macrosocial, meaning
"housebuilding"), on the other. From this, the other, the economy as a
management science appears in its ancient, ancient understanding. During the
crisis of the capitalist system of the era of the industrial revolution, beginning in
the 1960s and 1970s, and up to the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries and
further on, the institutional destruction of the scientific and technological
discipline begins, serving the capitalist world system, based on the principles of:
production – reproduction – expanded reproduction; commodity and cash
multipliers working on the principles of P-M-P and M-P-M' (P – product, M –
money); global expansion of sales markets. These principles, however dramatic
and cruel they may be, at one time allowed to overcome the "gloominess" of
economic science and to wrest mankind from the cycle of demographic cycles.
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Today,
as many people note, humanity stands at a crossroads: either return to the
moneyless feudal system of management with a series of births and extinctions,
or break away into some other, fundamentally new state, the outlines of which
few today are able to identify with firm confidence, limits of known forms and
models.
Almost simultaneously with the peak of the development of scientific and
technological progress and the industrial revolution, the science of management
– cybernetics – has become an independent discipline, perceived by the scientific
establishment and the broader scientific community as a "cognitive generic",
associated with the name of Norbert Wiener and dated 1948. The history of
science also knows other general concepts of the management and organization
of systems of the metaphysical level, one way or another associated with
Wiener's cybernetics, these are declared: in the period 1913-1922. – the
"tectology" of Alexander Bogdanov, in 1927 – the "synergetics" of Buckminster
Fuller (and in the same year of 1948 – the mechanics of the "Tensegrity" Fuller-
Snelson, which became the material embodiment of the ideas of synergetics);
tectological ideas seem to have been a source of inspiration
for the participants in
the successful Krasnoyarsk experiment on creating a closed biosphere in the
1970s, while the ideas of synergetics, becoming the common shadow background
of a significant number of scientific ideas throughout the world in the 1960s and
1970s. (including "second wave cybernetics", or "cybernetics of viable systems"
Stafford Beer), in the period of global crisis processes of the twentieth century,
receded into the background and only recently began to denote their timid
manifestation in the search for answers to global challenges. It should be noted
that all these paradigmatic concepts of management science, being presented to
the general mass of the well-read public under the name of "cybernetics," thanks
to the ideas of system dynamics proposed by Jay Forrester, have invaded the area
of urban studies, which today is hardly the only sober and justified (although it
has not been fully addressed by broad scientific circles) claims to the status of an
integral science of society – just as the whole science of the human "psychos e
"for today is a system of medical knowledge with all the complexity of research
and development, engineering systems, buildings, equipment, tools,
infocommunication provision, logistics, providing all this production and money
costs for all this – while the medicine itself is not science, but a high-tech sphere