Exploring Public–private Partnerships Through Knowledge Cybernetics

Knowledge cybernetics operates as a social geometry and incorporates joint alliance theory. Using its schema, an exploration is made of how in a globalizing economy governments may seek to enhance their social infrastructural provision by coupling private corporations into public services and producing public–private partnerships. This paper will explore and explain the systemic needs of such partnerships, their ontological and epistemological pathologies, and their ethical and ideological contradictions. Despite the unlikelihood of partnerships functioning effectively to the benefit of social provision, the persistence of the use of private provision in the delivery of social goods may have an ideological explanation.

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  November 2017

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  Thought Cybernetics Public–Private Partnership Epistemology Ideologies