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Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The role of technology in modern society is becoming fundamental to society itself as the boundary between technological utilization and technological interference narrows.
Demetis, Dionysios
core  

Millimeter-wave diode-grid phase shifters [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Monolithic diode grids have been fabricated on 2-cm square gallium-arsenide wafers with 1600 Schottky-barrier varactor diodes. Shorted diodes are detected with a liquid-crystal technique, and the bad diodes are removed with an ultrasonic probe.
Chen, Howard Z.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Las fenomenologías poshusserlianas de Alfred Schutz y Niklas Luhmann: soluciones para el problema de la intersubjetividad

open access: yesRevista Internacional de Sociología, 2015
Este trabajo aborda la recepción dada por Luhmann a la obra de Schutz, en cuyo marco comparamos los tratamientos dados por ambos a los problemas fenomenológicos de la experiencia del otro y de la intersubjetividad.
Sergio Pignuoli Ocampo
doaj   +1 more source

Luhmanns Medium-Form-Unterscheidung als Theorie der Satzmodelle [PDF]

open access: yesZeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2007
In seinem Schlüsseltext »Das Medium der Kunst« führt Niklas Luhmann eigene Termini für eine Theorie der Kunst ein. Zentral ist dabei seine Unterscheidung von ›Medium‹ und ›Form‹ – Termini, die Luhmann als Variablen verwendet.
Johannes Kreidler
doaj   +1 more source

What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
wiley   +1 more source

Teoria de sistemas autopoiéticos y la “actor network theory”: ¿Hacia una convergencia posestructuralista?

open access: yesINTERthesis, 2016
Desde hace unos años se manifiesta un creciente interés entre los sociólogos en establecer un nexo entre la Teoría de sistemas sociales autorreferenciales de Niklas Luhmann con los marcos teóricos que componen la filosofía social posestructuralista ...
Josep Pont Vidal
doaj   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FARMERS AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN AGROECOSYSTEMS OF THE MEXICAN SUB-HUMID TROPICS

open access: yesTropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2018
The comprehension of climate change among farmers in the Mexican sub-humid tropics is critical to becoming a social communication issue. This theoretical presumption guided the present research, whose objective was to understand the importance of ...
Lorena Casanova-Pérez   +4 more
doaj  

Sistemas autopoiéticos y juegos de lenguaje. El aire de familia entre Ludwig Wittgenstein y Niklas Luhmann

open access: yesPapers, 2000
Este artículo realiza una comparación entre el pensamiento lingüístico de Wittgenstein y la teoría social de Luhmann. En especial, se centra en la importancia de la noción de autología en ambos autores. A partir de este punto se intenta mostrar que tanto
Iñaki Iriarte López
doaj   +1 more source

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