An author earns an entry by bridging — one body of work feeding two or more sites, or several benches on one shelf. Chips name the sites; each coloured link is an instrument the work feeds, tinted by destination. The further reading tag marks entries woven in from the collection's two reading lists.
Signal, regulation, pattern, improbability — the lineage most CommuniCoupling instruments descend from.
Information as resolved uncertainty; the channel, its capacity, and the redundancy that buys reliability back from noise. Channel capacity runs the coding theorem as an instrument; Noise & redundancy replays it as a theory of conversation — why we repeat ourselves, and how much repetition a message needs.
Only variety can absorb variety, and every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system. Three benches run on his laws: Requisite variety, The good regulator, and The homeostat.
Relationship precedes message, and pathology is a property of the loop rather than of either party. The double bind and Schismogenesis are his mechanisms; Punctuation is his account of how two parties parse one loop into two opposite stories.
Communication is improbable three times over — reaching, being understood, being accepted — and society is what happens anyway. CommuniCoupling runs Second-order observation, Double contingency, and Improbable communication; ExploRational borrows his ninety-thousand-slip box in Keeping a commonplace.
Meaning as use, saying as doing, order as the talkers’ ongoing achievement.
Meaning is use: a sentence does what its language-game lets it do. SocioRhetoric’s plane model — one sentence informing, signaling, or posturing depending on its keying — instruments the thesis; CommuniCoupling’s grounding pages treat meaning the same way, as what survives use between two parties; and ExploRational’s Dissolving the problem quotes the fly-bottle (§309).
Saying is doing: performatives, felicity conditions, a taxonomy of acts and their misfires. SocioRhetoric’s twenty-eight-act catalogue stands on this shelf — Assertion is the baseline instrument, and the Examples traces the lineage.
The interaction order: face-work, frames, keys. SocioRhetoric’s keying vocabulary is his; CommuniCoupling runs Collins’s extension in Interaction ritual chains; ExploRational opens its reading-the-room’s-game move with his question — what is it that’s going on here?
Social order is produced in situ, turn by turn, and breaching it exposes the repair work that maintains it. The premise beneath SocioRhetoric’s act-by-act readings; Teachback puts the repair loop on a bench.
The declaration: an act that generates a future in language rather than reporting one. SocioRhetoric files it among the twenty-eight; Erhard built an entire pedagogy on that single act.
Traditions claiming antiquity are often recent engineering — ritual manufactured to bind a group. Read here as tribal signals at institutional scale, feeding interaction ritual chains that were designed on purpose.
How separate deciders land on the same spot — or tip away from it.
Coordination without communication, and macro-patterns nobody chose. Schelling points and Schelling segregation are the two halves of the same problem.
The riot that waits for one more rioter; the job that arrives through an acquaintance. The threshold model is filed twice — as mathematics and as sociology — with Weak ties alongside.
Costly signals separate types because faking them does not pay. Costly signaling reduces his game to its bones; SocioRhetoric’s Counter-signal plays the sequel, where imitation gets cheap and high types go quiet.
Commons users design their own monitoring and sanctions, and the designs that last share eight principles. Governing the commons instruments the fieldwork; read against Mechanism design, her principles are the same discipline run from the bottom up.
Organizations decide when problems, solutions, and deciders happen to meet — and sensible adults need sanctioned play. The garbage can runs the first claim; ExploRational files the second as The technology of foolishness.
The self as a coalition of hyperbolically impatient successive selves bargaining across time. Hyperbolic discounting runs the crossing curves his picoeconomics starts from.
Cooperation between communities that do not share a language.
Objects plastic enough to travel between worlds and firm enough to hold shape in each; categories whose residual bins carry the politics. Boundary objects and Categorical inequality both draw on this shelf.
Physicists and engineers who agree on almost nothing still trade, in pidgins that grow into creoles. Trading zones runs the zone.
Paradigms digest anomalies until they cannot. ExploRational drills the disciplined response — Theory proliferation, Multiple working hypotheses, the anomaly ledger — and Trading zones answers his incommensurability with trade.
AI’s dissenters, who turned the critique of plans-as-programs into a theory of interaction.
Expertise is skilled coping that outruns any rulebook. One reason the ExploRational catalogue drills moves rather than doctrines, and why CommuniCoupling treats coupling, not encoding, as its unit.
They read Maturana with Austin and built software from the pair: conversation-for-action, commitments tracked as speech acts. Structural coupling holds one parent; SocioRhetoric’s act catalogue the other.
Plans are resources for action, not scripts that execute; every use is improvised against circumstance. Gesture & response is the loop her photocopier studies watched break; ExploRational’s probing-before-committing move is her lesson as practice.
Deictic routines instead of world models, and critical technical practice — building systems as a way of interrogating a field’s metaphors, which is Making the familiar strange applied to one’s own discipline. His capture model, activity reshaped into trackable grammars, reads as a CommuniCoupling mechanism awaiting its bench.
Objects are achievements of registration, carved from process by a subject that keeps track. The standing caveat under every MatheMetaphor mapping table, and kin to Entities as relations.
What to do when the system of rules runs out.
Reasonableness and rationality as complementary crafts; meta-rationality as the skill of choosing, combining, and exiting systems. Credited in the catalogue’s footer, and the frame the whole collection works inside: formalisms held as instruments, not creeds.
Arguments live in fields, and the demand for context-free certainty was a detour. The asking-“in what sense?” move is after him, and the catalogue’s sixteen absorbed ContextPlosion moves credit him beside Chapman.
The situation talks back, and problem-setting precedes problem-solving. Three catalogue moves are his: Setting the problem, Listening for the back-talk, and Probing before committing.
Development is the subject–object move: the frame that had you becomes a frame you have. Making the system an object names him; Self-distancing and Zooming drill the same muscle.
Strange loops, and jumping outside the system as intelligence’s signature. Gödel incompleteness cites him on the mathematics; Stepping out of the system files the jump as a move.
Formalisms are cognitive technology: paper tools that de-bias reasoning by resisting shortcuts. MatheMetaphor’s charter in monograph form; Changing the representation is the same claim run as a drill.
Say yes, and: act on what the moment gives before certainty arrives. Accepting the offer drills her first law.
Change the description and the same facts change their meaning.
Intellectual progress as re-description: new vocabularies finish what arguments cannot. Systematic re-description sweeps wordings the way he says cultures do; Worldmaking is the larger version.
Tracing contingent descent shows how it produced the present. Genealogy names him and drills the method.
The rhizome against the tree: many entries, no master trunk. Many models holds the working version; Heterarchy the structural one.
Disputes between idioms that share no tribunal. The hard case CommuniCoupling keeps instrumenting, from Trading zones to Improbable communication.
Problems ended by unmaking the frame that produced them.
Unhappiness as the belief that questioning and its problems can retire. Dissolving the problem is the same operation with wider scope.
Quarrels as self-sustaining thought loops that die of neglect once seen as loops. A practitioner’s manual for stepping out of Vicious circles.
Chan Buddhism read as improvised relationship: persons as relations, not terminals. Entities as relations is the same ontology with instruments.
The form of the collection has authors too.
Access to tools, arranged so that browsing is the pedagogy. The catalogue-as-portal — items, one-line glosses, doors — is the form all the sites borrow.
Clarity as a duty to the hearer, and declamation in utramque partem as training. Arguing both sides keeps the exercise alive; the house voice keeps the duty.