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Series: Science and Cultural Theory
Published: 01 January 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391388-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9138-8
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
... second-order cybernetics social systems theory radical constructivism Niklas Luhmann Emmanuel Levinas ...
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374497-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
... insight from neocybernetics and Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory to argue against methodological individualism, a representationalist cognitive paradigm, and conventional notions of communicative exchange. In their place it champions a performative and radically constructivist ontology in which...
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
... in which particular constraints of fellows and objects encourage the emergence of something new or inventive. Any given performance remains a dance of interagency about which not all can be known or anticipated. This chapter uses insight from neocybernetics and Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory...
Book Chapter

By Brian Massumi
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375814-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7581-4
... infrastructure. The usual response to this problem is to instill what Niklas Luhmann calls “system trust” to foster confidence. The inherent paradoxes of this idea are explored in Luhmann’s own terms, refracted through Michel Foucault’s suggestion that affectively inflected individual choice is the “regressive...
Published: 04 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375739-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7573-9
... This chapter uses theories of autopoeisis as articulated by Niklas Luhmann to raise questions regarding the extent of our access to our environments, particularly the biological environment on which much of Malabou’s philosophy relies. Understood philosophically, poiesis demonstrates...
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374459-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books Uncanny Valley Patricia Highsmith Tom McCarthy...
Book Chapter

By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Max Brooks ( World War Z ), and comic book art. Description of the epoch of social systems, in relation to modern and contemporary art and the social theory of Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Sloterdijk. Self-Boosterism Institutions Practical Jokes Comic Books...