The Range of Interpretation

Recursive looping as a structure of translatability reveals that the liminal space between the foreign and the familiar, between input and output, between the structural coupling of systems, and between the levels of autonomous systems, cannot be eliminated, although recursivity is powered by the drive to eliminate it. Consequently, the liminal space highlights a residual untranslatability, which gives rise to a growing complexity of the procedures operative in interpretation.

Whenever we encounter a major shift in the variables of interpretation, we are alerted to a predicament that throws up new questions that can no longer be met by old answers. The waning authority of the canon gave birth to the hermeneutic circle. The necessity to control entropy, to manage open-endedness, and to conceive of the self-organization of autonomous systems marked the rise of recursive looping as an interpretive strategy.