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System-A

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Towards a Fourth Generation Pattern Language: Patterns as Epistemic Threads

Alexander saw pattern languages as tools for supporting what he referred to as System-A, a life-centred, human scale alternative to the globally dominant social, political, economic and cultural configuration he called System-B.⁶⁸ Discussions on the feasibility of systemic transformation, on structure versus agency, have been going on for a long time in many disciplines.⁶⁹ French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard defined an ungraspable order in the System, a simulacrum made of indefinite chainings of simulations he called ‘the code’.⁷⁰ This code, in its unbounded (de-finalized in Baudrillard’s own terms) space-time, dissolves and absorbs any final cause for change such as political economy or revolution. In this logic, trying to ‘fight’ The System from within is vain, because any attempt will be neutralised by dilution in the code: the medium taking control of the agent as described earlier in the paper.⁷¹