In this audiobook edition, Dr. Bichara Sahely explores how modern institutions created to serve life can drift into self-maintaining systems that protect procedures, metrics, reputation, and power while losing touch with care, truth, justice, and communion. Integrating Maturana, Luhmann, Deacon, McMurtry, Argyris, and wider traditions in systems theory, political economy, organizational learning, and theology, the work names this drift “institutional autopoietization”: self-maintenance without life-correction. It then offers a life-coherence corrective, asking whether institutions can be made answerable again to the living persons, communities, ecosystems, and truths they affect.
