Eine wichtige Neuerscheinung des aktuellen Jahres ist soeben im dgvt-Verlag Tübingen erschienen. Es handelt sich um die deutsche Übersetzung eines Buches von Ethan Watters, auf
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I am a lecturer in the English department at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse.
How does memory forget?
Luhmann argues that memory is the capacity to remember and forget. Systems must be able to forget. Memory is a system function (or operation), not a storage space.
Systems Theory and Postmodernism
I’ve been listening to a lecture by Luhmann titled “Systems Theory and Postmodernism.” Early in the lecture, Luhmann mentions a conversation he had with Jean-François Lyotard in
Trust in a Risk Society
One of the best-known early theories by Niklas Luhmann is his theory of trust. In his book, Vertrauen (1968), Luhmann presented his basic theses about trust. The function of trust is to reconstruct or to reduce the growing complexity of society.
US Dept of Justice versus Apple: The Law and the Economy as Autonomous Systems
I’ve been thinking about the controversy between Apple and the US Department of Justice. The first thing to recognize is that when a state, which
“Soylent Green is People!” But society isn’t.
I hope someone other than me will get the popular cultural reference. Anyway, to elaborate on some earlier blog posts, if we start with the premise that society is
