Cosmotechnics of Lack: An Ethics of Productive Disequilibrium for the Age of Saturation

Cosmotechnics of Lack: An Ethics of Productive Disequilibrium for the Age of Saturation This text proposes the Cosmotechnics of Lack as an applied worldview and ethics, grounded in Informational-Processual Monism (IPM). Lack — understood here in three registers: an ontological condition, an operational quantity, and a lived experience — is not the center of this proposal but its condition of possibility: the immanent tendency of complex systems to integrate, persist, and create form from disequilibrium. Applied to culture, architecture, clinical practice, art, education, politics, and the human-AI relation, this worldview defends the interval, incompleteness, and resistance to saturation as conditions of desire, autonomy, and democratic life. The text engages Simondon, Lacan, Yuk Hui, Hartmut Rosa, Byung-Chul Han, Jane Jacobs, Maturana and Varela, Andy Clark and David Chalmers, and Édouard Glissant, translating IPM's core regularities (Lack → Coupling → Integration → Persistence) into concrete proposals: the Metastable Interval of Attention, the Right to the Non-Optimizable Interval, Living Feedback Gardens, the Gradient Precautionary Heuristic, and four operational tools (TSP, RNI, LCR, and the Cosmotechnical Clinic). This is the revised English edition of the original Portuguese essay (Junho de 2026), prepared for the Informational-Processual Monism (IPM) research series. It clarifies the relation between IPM (the ontological substrate) and the Cosmotechnics of Lack (its applied, non-deductive extension), disambiguates the ontological, operational, and phenomenological registers of "Lack," and restructures the argument into four parts: Foundations, Diagnosis, Proposals, and Limits. Status: a falsifiable proposal and worldview in development, not a closed system. Its ontological foundations (IPM) are working hypotheses subject to falsification; its practical proposals are qualitative orientations, not prescriptions. Part of the Informational-Processual Monism (IPM) project: github.com/taotuner-br/Informational-Processual_Monism