Life (vitalism)

Article Abstract:

Studies reveals that the currency of vitalism is re-emerging in the context of the changes in the sciences, with the rise of ideas of uncertainty and complexity, and the rise of the global information society. Classical vitalism conceives of life as flow and in opposition to the structures that would contain and stop it, while neo-vitalism seems to have its roots in something like a media or information heuristic, leading to address that 'information is alive'.

Science, Philosophy of science

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Experience

Article Abstract:

Immanuel Kant describes experience as epistemological, whereas ontological experience is in the first instance poetic, Romantic and aesthetic. A third type is informational experience, which can account for the experience of societies, of individual humans, of digital media, of neuronal networks, phenotypes, urban forms, of cellular organisms, or of inorganic matter.

Aesthetics, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Ontology

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Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the information age

Article Abstract:

A case for the revaluation of vitalism in sociological theory argues for the relevance of such a lebenssoziologie in the global information age. The analysis works for the juxtaposition of vitalist monadology with postivist atomism shows how Simmel drew on the Kantian cognition to develop an idea of the social.

Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Globalization

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