After Reason ist ein übergeordnetes Denk- und Analysekonzept.
Es umfasst vier inhaltlich verbundene Bücher, die gemeinsam eine strukturelle Diagnose der Gegenwart bilden.
🧠 R2049 · After Reason: Eine strukturelle Diagnose der Gegenwart
Tag: Post-Intentional Action
🧠 R2049 · After Reason: A Structural Diagnosis of the Present
After Reason is a conceptual framework consisting of four interdependent books.
It is not presented as a series, but as a coherent structural diagnosis.
The framework does not analyse themes.
It reconstructs a condition that has already become operational.
These books do not propose futures.
They describe why the present already functions differently.
🧠 R2049 · Leadership Logs of ØN: When Leadership Realised It Does Not Control
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I write this log from a time when leadership stopped perceiving itself as the centre of systems. This insight did not emerge from theory, but from systemic failure. Organisations grew more complex, markets more volatile, expectations more contradictory – and leadership responded reflexively with more control.
Continue reading “🧠 R2049 · Leadership Logs of ØN: When Leadership Realised It Does Not Control”Decision Without Justification: After Reason
Intro
This book analyses decision-making in systemic environments where justification no longer performs a steering function.
It reconstructs how decisions emerge through structural conditions, thresholds, and recursion rather than reasons or deliberation.
Core concepts include post-decisional justification, system-based decision-making, cognitive architecture, and post-intentional action.
The text is diagnostic, not normative, and documents a structural shift in how decisions function beyond reason.
The Book
Decisions are made.
Reasons are added afterwards.
This book examines a profound structural shift:
justification has ceased to steer decisions and survives only as retrospective legitimation.
In systemic environments, automated processes, and stabilised decision architectures, decisions emerge without deliberation, without judgement, without rational justification. Systems do not choose because reasons persuade, but because conditions take effect. Discussions no longer change anything. Transparency explains – it does not steer.
„Decision Without Justification“ is neither an attack on reason nor a plea for arbitrariness. It is a reconstruction: how justification moved from the origin of decision to its communicative aftercare. Why rationality lost its steering function and legitimation mutated into a social mechanism of connectivity.
Rethinka writes from the perspective after the fact. Not to evaluate decisions, but to make visible what happens when reasons no longer decide – but merely explain.
This book does not ask why a decision was made.
It shows why that question has lost its effectiveness.
Available in all e-book stores.
Short Reference
Decisions no longer arise from reasons.
They arise from conditions.
Justification survives only as post-decisional narration, not as a steering mechanism.
Conceptual Positioning
This book does not propose a new decision theory.
It documents the operational irrelevance of justification in complex systems.
Decision is treated as a structural consequence, not as an act of judgement.
Rationality appears as a communicative layer, not as a causal driver.
Archival Classification
Domain: Cognitive Architecture / Decision Systems
Primary Focus: Post-Justification Decision-Making
Key Concepts:
– Post-Intentional Action
– Structural Decision-Making
– Justification as Post-Processing
– Threshold-Based Systems
– System Viability
Text Type: Archival Diagnostic
Perspective: After-the-fact (post-decision)
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