Self-Destruction of Complex Systems: Communicative and Structural Aspects

This book is the first attempt to provide a general theory of self-destruction in complex systems applicable to natural, social and cultural phenomena.

The contributors work collaboratively to prove that many of the nondistributed complex systems in nature and society sooner or later experience critical development leading to unintended and irreversible self-annihilation. The individual chapters also show that the relations of such systems to their own distinctiveness and other systems may r...