Institution, Human, Technology

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Dr Six Silberman leads us in exploring the complex interplay between institutions and organisations; humans; and technologies.

This first seminar introduces practical principles of governance, from designing simple, legitimate rules and roles to recognising how enforcement, communication, and collective memory shape organisational life. It then opens up big-picture questions about human flourishing, organisational health, value, and our relationship with the nonhuman world. Finally, it explores working definitions of organisations and institutions, how rules interlink to form roles and structures, and how institutions co-evolve with infrastructures.