Metanomics
Metanomics is an analytical framework for investigating how structures, relationships, constraints, flows, and other conditions shape patterns in complex systems and situations.
It brings together different analytical approaches for examining how patterns arise and persist, how they change, and how the underlying structures influence what is possible within a system or situation.
Developed within The Frame Continuum, Metanomics provides an analytical foundation for investigating complexity across natural, social, and conceptual domains. Its purpose is to strengthen individual and collective human agency and value through a deeper understanding of the structures and conditions shaping the world in which we act.
The foundations of Metanomics include STCFΦ and Resolution Layers. Together, they provide structural perspectives for examining system configurations, functional possibilities, and the relationships between different levels of organisation.
The analytical method comprises Analytical Modes, Analytical Processes, and the Structural Drift Taxonomy. Together, these provide different approaches to structuring an inquiry, examining relationships, and identifying meaningful distinctions within the subject of analysis.
Metanomics includes analytical frameworks that extend its capacity to investigate specific questions and relationships. These include the Invariant Framework, Agency Doctrine, and supporting frameworks.
Agency Doctrine
The Agency Doctrine connects structural understanding to the question of what can actually be changed. It distinguishes understanding a system from intervening in it and examines where meaningful intervention is possible within the relevant constraints, topology, flows, and structures.
Invariant Framework
The Invariant Framework provides a method for asking what remains stable when the conditions, representations, frames, or configurations under examination change. Rather than assuming that a particular description captures the underlying phenomenon, it seeks properties or relationships that persist across valid transformations.
These frameworks and methods remain under development. Their detailed methods and applications are developed through the associated research and practical work.
Metanomics supports two broad forms of application: Diagnostics and Intervention.
Diagnostics
Examining observed patterns to identify the structural conditions and relationships that generate or sustain them.
Intervention
Identifying where changes to a system's structure or conditions may influence existing patterns or enable different outcomes.