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Alternative Systems
Alternative Systems are artificial systems created through processes of human construction. They tend to augment reality, because such systems did not exist prior to their human conception, construction and development. The Microwave, the telephone, the television, the radio, all are obvious examples of alternative artificial systems that had no previous existence prior to their invention and implementation in human reality. Alternative systems have come to constitute an entirely new strata of natural systems, because, though they are artificial, they are in a sense indirect and logical by-products of natural processes rooted in human systems and cultural processes.
The concern of alternative anthropology in the applied sense is of course the study and comprehension of this level of human reality concerned with alternative systems, not just from an analytic and technical point of view, but from the framework of their holistic integration, life-operation and interaction with other systems. The concern is furthermore the problem of the exploration, invention and experimentation of new alternative system with the idea of bring to realization those possibilities that exist latent in our reality but have yet to be realized but have yet to be realized through either a failure to recognize them or the failure to apply them once they have been discovered.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
