Accelerating Luhmann: Towards a systems theory of ambivalence

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A proposition of the conception of the postmodern social systems condition that is compatible with the terminology of Luhmann's systems theory is discussed. A deconstructive critique exposing those problems or obstacles in systems theory, which make it blind to certain features of function systems in their postmodern condition, and a reconstructive stage attempting to incorporate this critique into systems theory, enabling it to grasp both the 'modern' and the 'post' in contemporary society are presented.

Works, Postmodernism, Luhmann, Niklas

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The ontological consequences of Copernicus: Global being in the planetary world

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A brief overview of the Nieztschean-Heideggerian style of 'cosmological hypermodernity' and its heliocentric conception of a mobile earth is presented considering the risen debates of the earth as a planet 'less grounded' but 'more worlded'. It is argued that western philosophy needs to find a new conceptual vocabulary through which cosmopolitan planetariness can be articulated and as the earth becomes a virtualized symbolic resource, the idea of inhabiting the earth needs to be rethought.

Criticism and interpretation, Cosmology, Western philosophy

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Complexity and social movement(s): Process and emergence in planetary action system

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The self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) is argued that it may be engaged with an expression and effect of global complexity and draw upon a 'minor' literature in social movement studies. Delusion reading of complexity is used to describe the phase of the 'movement of movements' and transnational gatherings, facilitated by computer-mediated communications and unprecedented mobility, which constitutes a 'shadow realm' to political exchange theories.

Influence, Social movements

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