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Observing complexity : systems theory and postmodernity / William Rasch and Cary Wolfe, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- System theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brings the major concepts and foremost thinkers of 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9001-4
- 0-8166-5291-0
- OCLC:
- 476094740
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