What is anthropy? Principles of a hypothesis

Anthropy is the hypothesis that social systems displace disorder rather than resolve it. Every local social order is built by exporting its disorder to other places, other times, or other social groups. This founding paper argues that disorder displacement — spatial (centre to periphery), temporal (debt and deferral onto future generations), and social (transfer of charges onto captive groups) — constitutes a structural mechanism observable in every configuration of stable order, and not a market accident reducible to the notion of externality. In dialogue with economic thermodynamics (Georgescu-Roegen), systems theory (Luhmann), world-ecology (Moore), the anthropology of debt (Graeber), and the sociology of risk (Beck), the paper shows what the anthropic framework illuminates in addition: a unified analytical grid for displaced costs, operationalisable through three systematic questions — who creates order, who absorbs disorder, and what device renders the transfer invisible.