Application

System Critique

System Critique examines whether a procedure, institution, platform, bureaucracy, or discipline serves actuality or protects itself from correction.

Systems must serve actuality. When the system protects itself from correction, capture has occurred.

Questions / checks

What does the system serve?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

What is rejected?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

Who is allowed to speak?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

What does the system preserve?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

Can it be corrected?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

What action follows?

Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.

Everyday use

Use this page when a situation feels captured by a label, model, representation, word, system, authority, or practice.

The task is to return the frame to service of what is, not to destroy every frame.