institutional emergence

WARNING NOTE: This post is subject to change. Contrary to blogging norms I will, upon occasion and maybe unannounced, return to this post and add, remove or modify text and images.

In a very obvious way, this blog is about institutions and emergence. For the 'about' sentence in the upper right corner I have written that the blog is 'concerned with the nexus of emergence, institutional forms and organization'.

In the institutional literature, it appears as though the temporal frame for understanding institutional emergence begins with some immediately observable (objectively or subjectively) events (as well as processes) and ends when these shift from institutional creation to distribution, maintenance and disruption. Also assumed is more or less some kind of linearity.

I refuse to reify the temporality of emergence this way.

Instead, the emergence of institutions (and the order on which these rely) is not wholly linguistic. Following Deleuze, difference can be positive if we reverse the structuralist assumption that it is produced as a result of language. Rather, we can think of language as that which reduces difference and that the world is actually what results from the ways in which difference is synthesized.