Caveat: Mission Statement

[This is a cross-post from my other blog.] The point is clear: the purpose of the Organization is to be organized. Several committees will have been created to pursue this goal, with necessary but not sufficient technocratic support staff. The Committee and Directorate of Teleological Debate (for All Intents and Purposes) This committee and associated support staff attempts to address the question, Why does the Organization exist? Is the ongoing organization of such organizations as this Organization strictly necessary? Importantly, it advocates that a main purpose of the Organization is to discuss (but avoid resolving) such questions. The Committee and Directorate of (Mis-)Direction This committee and associated support staff attempts to address the question, Who controls the Organization? How is this control (if it exists) implicated in processes of organizational creation and perpetuation? Is it possible for the various committees and directorates of the Organization to accomplish their goals without direction? Is direction perhaps inimical to the Organization? The Committee and Directorate of Cryptic Origins This committee and associated support staff attempts to address the question, To what extent are the demiurges behind our perceived reality (this knowable Ardisphere beneath our feet) actually more real? More troubling, what are these demiurges’ motives? Are they a unified front, or a disparate group operating at cross-purposes? What are their origins? And to what extent do they wilfully misrepresent their true motives and origins? The Committee and Directorate of Semiotic Action This committee and associated support staff attempts to address the question, How can the Organization best emit a maximum proportion of signs to actual meaning? How best can the resources available (e.g. diaries, newscasters, hermetic hypertexts and encyclopedic simulacra) be leveraged to increase the full coverage of the Known Universe with (and by) content-free organizational representations? Music to organize to: Mexican Institute of Sound, “Mi negra a bailal.”