Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity
by William Rasch
contributions by Cary Wolfe
contributions by Cary Wolfe
University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-8166-3297-8 | Paper: 978-0-8166-3298-5
Library of Congress Classification B831.2.O27 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 003
Cloth: 978-0-8166-3297-8 | Paper: 978-0-8166-3298-5
Library of Congress Classification B831.2.O27 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 003
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Systems Theory and the Politics of Postmodernity
- Rasch, William
- Wolfe, Cary
- I.
- SYSTEMS THEORY AND/OR POSTMODERNISM? HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND ETHICAL FRAMES
- 1.
- Why Does Society Describe Itself as Postmodern?
- Luhmann, Niklas
- 2.
- No Exit? (Response to Luhmann)
- Hohendahl, Peter Uwe
- 3.
- Pre- and Post-Dialectical Materialisms: Modeling Praxis without Subjects and Objects
- Levinson, Marjorie
- 4.
- Immanent Systems, Transcendental Temptations, and the Limits of Ethics
- Rasch, William
- 5.
- Rethinking the Beyond within the Real (Response to Rasch)
- Cornell, Drucilla
- II.
- OF REALISM AND RECURSIVITY: SYSTEMS THEORY AND THE POSTMODERN EPISTEME
- 6.
- Theory of a Different Order: A Conversation with Katherine Hayles and Niklas Luhmann
- Luhmann, Niklas
- Hayles, N. Katherine
- Rasch, William
- Knodt, Eva
- Wolfe, Cary
- 7.
- Making the Cut: The Interplay of Narrative and System, or What Systems Theory Can't See
- Hayles, N. Katherine
- 8.
- In Search of Posthumanist Theory: The Second-Order Cybernetics of Maturana and Varela
- Wolfe, Cary
- III.
- SYSTEMS THEORY IN RESONANCE WITH MAJOR POSTMODERNISTS
- 9.
- The Limit of Modernity: Luhmann and Lyotard on Exclusion
- Rasch, William
- 10.
- Blinded Me with Science: Motifs of Observation and Temporality in Lacan and Luhmann
- Elmer, Jonathan
- 11.
- Making Contingency Safe for Liberalism: The Pragmatics of Epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann
- Wolfe, Cary
- 12.
- The Autonomy of Affect
- Massumi, Brian
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Index
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