institutions

compositions of collaboration, real and imagined, material and imaginary · modern(ist) conglomerates of individual effort, social desire and compulsion, collective cohesion and association · arrangements for the obstruction, continuation and elaboration of social and political forms · museums, libraries, marriages, governments, schools, city halls, nation states, archives, universities, art schools · essential procedures of instinct satisfaction · tendencies linking individuals to an external milieu · sets of set formal and informal rules in settings that constrain and enable, provide degrees of or forestal privilege, power and access · relationship-consolidating and long-standing social procedures, agreements, and speech-acts · individuating operations of organisms within but apart from 'natural' ecologies