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=== Autopoesis ===
The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]]:
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An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produced them; and (ii) constitute it (the machine) as a concrete unity in space in which they (the components) exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network.<ref>Maturana, Varela, 1980, p. 78</ref>
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[...] the space defined by an autopoietic system is self-contained and cannot be described by using dimensions that define another space. When we refer to our interactions with a concrete autopoietic system, however, we project this system on the space of our manipulations and make a description of this projection.<ref>Maturana, Varela, 1980, p. 89</ref>
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=== Generation ===
* Structure
* Rules
* Printing a book from CSS [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom]
* apache xml->graphics group [http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/]
=== Media === *Things I have acquired, painstakingly. === Print ===[http://magcloud.com/publish MagCloud] [http://blurb.com Blurb]: * 13x11 in, hardcover, $79.95 100lb silk finish, custom logo* 5x8, soft, 120 pages, $6.95.[http://lulu.com Lulu]: * 8.25x10.75 in, hardcover casewrap, 150pages, $48.00* 9x7 in paperback, $14.50 * 4.25" x 6.875" (10.795cm x 17.463cm), 120 pages, $6.90.[http://createspace.com CreateSpace]: * 8x10 in $6.55 250 pages max for color*6x8.25 in. 24# paper[http://www.qoop.com/ QooP]: *CreateSpace8.5x11 in, hardcover laminate $21.43,*Lulu8.5x11 in, perfect $15.90 ---- === Open Source Workflows + Toolsets ===
