Observing complexity : systems theory and postmodernity /
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2000.
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Table of 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.