Observing complexity : systems theory and postmodernity
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Observing complexity : systems theory and postmodernity
University of Minnesota Press, c2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Systems theory and/or postmodernism? : historical, political, and ethical frames
- Why does society describe itself as postmodern? / Niklas Luhmann
- No exit? (response to Luhmann) / Peter Uwe Hohendahl
- Pre- and post-dialectical materialisms : modeling praxis without subjects and objects / Marjorie Levinson
- Immanent systems, transcendental temptations, and the limits of ethics / William Rasch
- Rethinking the beyond within the real (response to Rasch) / Drucilla Cornell
- Of realism and recursivity : systems theory and the postmodern episteme
- Theory of a different order : a conversation with Katherine Hayles and Niklas Luhmann / Niklas Luhmann, N. Katherine Hayles, William Rasch, Eva Knodt, and Cary Wolfe
- Making the cut : the interplay of narrative and system, or what systems theory can't see / N. Katherine Hayles
- In search of posthumanist theory : the second-order cybernetics of Maturana and Varela / Cary Wolfe
- Systems theory in resonance with major postmodernists
- The limit of modernity : Luhmann and Lyotard on exclusion / William Rasch
- Blinded me with science : motifs of observation and temporality in Lacan and Luhmann / Jonathan Elmer
- Making contingency safe for liberalism : the pragmatics of epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe
- The autonomy of affect / Brian Massumi
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The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means of describing all systems, whether organic or inorganic, and offers a theory of knowledge that can account for the integration of humans in the social, informational, and ecological systems in which we are enmeshed. An introduction to the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory, this book brings systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and open -- a rich montage, including interviews, exemplary essays, and staged dialogues. Throughout, the writers' aim is not to solidity theory but to provide a thorough explication and an open-ended exploration of how systems theory can address, in a fresh and productive way, theoretical questions that too often have led to impasses between different schools of postmodern theory.
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