EVERYTHING “INTO PIECES”: REFLECTIONS ON DECLASSIFICATION AND COMPLEXITY

The classification builds the world, as it breaks it into pieces, through
dichotomies, subordinations, definitions and partitions subject to the principles of
a traditional logic that determines a fictitious and repressive vision of the mixed,
contradictory and open immensity of meaning. Declassification, for its part, contributes
to thinking and reclassifying without the restrictions of that logic and its numerous
epistemological obstacles. This text explores the conception of part and piece in an ancient
Mayan language to rethink contemporary modes of global classification. Information
Science and KO theoreticians and practitioners are relevant actors in the classification and,
consequently, take on a great responsibility by consciously or unconsciously supporting
a progress project that could be leading the world towards irreversible complications.
Declassification offers some systemic reversal strategies.