Ordering

Disordering

mutually defining

as every ordering is also

creating disorders elsewhere

Ordering makes future predictable

while disordering has the opposite effect

And yet

could disordering also increase predictability

or is its futuring a purely negative process?

To recognise disordering as such, entails

knowing the past and extending it to

the not yet of an unfulfilled future

which holds terror and hopes

Entropy is fundamental to

both social ordering

and disordering

in the environment

politics & the economy

Materialised in space and

extending over all time, both are

imagined and anticipated processes

made and regulated to variable effects

with vastly different impacts on our lives

And yet

they are mutually implicating & defining

The built environment aids memories of

futures that are knowable and assured

until  a disaster strikes and flips  order

into  its  opposite: unsettling  security

to produce insecurity & vulnerability

while  deliberate disordering is also

essential for opening up spaces to

be a catalyst for  transformation

in  the order-disorder relation

entailed in all future making    

© Barbara Adam

210321

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