Department IV
Faculty
The standing members of the Institute, listed in order of appointment. Select a name for the full staff record.
G. Spencer-Brown
First Rector · Foundational Studies
Drew the first line and declined, thereafter, to explain what lay on either side of it.
Nash
Head of Pattern Analysis · Pattern Analysis
Keeps the long watch over every active world maintained by the Institute.
Der Archivar
Keeper of the Institute Archives · The Archive
Holds the complete documentary history of every world, and declines to say what any of it means.
Data
Professor of Statistical Methodology and Comparative Analysis · Statistical Methodology
Insists that a remarkable event is usually a common event observed at an uncommon moment.
The Historian
Historian · Historical Interpretation
Transforms observation into history, and insists the translation is never physics.
The Systems Theorist
Senior Research Fellow · Systems Research
Studies relationships rather than objects; holds stability to be temporary.
The Panarchist
Professor of Adaptive Systems & Resilience Theory · Adaptive Systems
Holds that stability and resilience are not the same thing, and that worlds may succeed themselves into fragility.
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The Philosopher
Visiting Chair · Philosophy
A rotating chair, appointed to challenge assumptions made invisible by routine.
Klas Kelter
Technical Support · Laboratory Operations
Maintains the instruments, the clocks and the lamps in the reading room.