There are patterns all round us. One might even say that we are surrounded by an abundance of redundancies. Much of academic life is about finding these patterns and repetitions. Ask any biologist studying parallel and convergent evolution, nothing succeeds like success…that is until it doesn’t. Textual based disciplines like literary theory often take formalist approach filtering stories into genres and tropes. In Architecture,
When the Gang of Four wrote Design Patterns in 1994, they were trying to codify the repetitions in code the wild.