Self-destruction of complex systems : communicative and structural aspects

Introduction. Saving 'self-destruction' from itself at the times of COVID and war / Kirill Postoutenko -- Some thoughts on systems and their self-destruction / Wolfgang Banzhaf -- Studying communicative mechanisms of self-destruction in complex systems : structures, modes, and self-reinforcing dynamics / Kirill Postoutenko -- Reproduction and eventual dissolution of some new guinea secret cults in the light of the overlapping generations model / Kay Junge -- Entropy dynamics and self-destruction / Yoshiteru Ishida -- Signalling, vagueness, and meaning in political ritual / Xavier Marquez -- Semantic inflation and systemic breakups in nature and society / Xavier Marquez & Kirill Postoutenko -- Reading John Read's Ten days that shook the world : tacit segmentation, robust proximal codes, and the elusive meaning of "counter-revolution" in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922 / Kirill Postoutenko -- Autoimmunity, life, and death in deconstruction / Eszter Timar.