What does the system serve?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
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 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.