NET-GIVING: The Autopoietic Gift Economy — Why the Developed Self Gives Rather than Works the Network

This paper introduces NET-GIVING as the autopoietic social operation that necessarily supersedes NET-WORKING at the post-Ordeal stations of the Hero's Journey. NET-WORKING is a first-order transactional paradigm. NET-GIVING is a third-order autopoietic paradigm: the overflow of a system that has genuinely completed a developmental cycle and gives from abundance, not calculation. Drawing on Mauss (1925), Hyde (1983), and the Hero's Journey Return with Elixir (Station X). BERLINJOHN Cybernetics Corpus 2026l.