Dear Colleagues,
for those of you who can read eather German or Spanish (some are also in
English) here are - in the context of a theory of society and a methodology
of distinctions - some observations about our society: the emotional
dimension, the bodily dimension, the technological dimension, the sensual
dimension (visuality as an example), the virtual dimension (cyberculture),
about the connection between Social Action and Instrumental Theory of
Truth, about the theory of communicative action observed through the glases
of the theory of distinctions...
Greetings, Rodrigo Jokisch
a theory of the emtional dimension of our society. The term comunity is
used in the following essay to indicate a special form of social
affectiveness...
1) Affect and Society. Love as an exemple for the affective dimension of
our society...
I took Love to show this dimension but it could also be Trust, or Envy, or
Melancholy, or Gladness etc... For those who know the work of Maturana: I
am not using his semantic because Maturana's Love-Conception is in my
opinion very problematic and does not reflect what I would call the *the
emotional dimension of society*
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Liebe.htm
2) Also the essay about 'Problems of the German Unification' entails the
term community to explain some social aspects of the former 'German
Democratic Republic' (DDR)... for those who can read German take a look here:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Deutsche_Einheit.htm
3) Very near to the emotional dimension of our society we can find the
*bodily dimension* of our society. I took as an example the distinction:
Gender / Sexuality... but it could also have been Age, or *Colour/Race*, or
Strength, or Disability etc... By the way, one of the most important
aspects of the emotional dimension of our society is Anxiety - a form of
emotional *negation* like Hate but far more important than the latter...
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Geschlecht.htm
Other new articles are:
4) The Form of Technology:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Technik.htm
5) Technology and Art:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_FormderTechnikundKunst.htm
6) The Social Dimension of Photography (about what could be called *social
visuality*... it could also have been taste, auditivity, smell etc):
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Photographie.htm
7) About the social dimension of the *virtual space* or what we call today
*cyberculture* or *virtual society*:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Virtueller_Raum.htm
8) Social Action and the Theory of Instrumental Truth (if you try to
observe society only through the eyes of social actions then you are using
implicitly a sort of instrumental truth... this work is only in Spanish
available...
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_AccionSocial_VerdadInstrumental.htm
9) The Form of Social Action:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_GB_Handlung.htm
10) The Theory of Communicative Action of Juergen Habermas observed through
the glases of a Methodology of Distinctions... This work is only available
in Spanish...
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Habermas.htm
11) if some of you would like to know - in English - what I think are some
problems with Theory-Construction of Grand Theories, specially with the
proposal made by Niklas Luhmann, take a look at this short essay:
Problems with Theory-Construction of Grand Theories
Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems, as an Example
You can find this essay under the url:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_SocialSystems_DistinctionsTheory.htm
12) Complexity has different aspects, resembles different facets... One of
this aspects is the relation between the complex and the simple... Here I
send you a first Szenarium, a first reflexion, a first draft concerning the
Problem of Complexity in the sense of: How is complexity possible?
12a) How is complexity possible? Szenarium I: The uses of the simple and
the complex
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Komplexitaet_EinfachKomplex.htm
12b) How is complexity possible? Szenarium II: Complexity and Science
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Komplexitaet_Wissenschaft.htm
unfortunatly these essays are in German... I hope in the near future to
offer an English version...
Other Szenarien next to come:
Szenarium III: Temporality of the scientific object
Szenarium IV: What is complexity
Szenarium V: 'Firstness' and Autopoiesis
Szenarium VI: Complexity and Social Theory
Szenarium VII: Fictional and ontological 'last-elements'
Szenarium VIII: Everyday-semantic and scientific semantic
13) If you want to know what I understand under a *methodology of
distinctions* take a look at this url in English:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Logic_Resume.htm
You may find everything here:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/~society/Jokisch_Publikationen.htm
comments, critics, proposals are of course wellcome,
Best regards,
Rodrigo Jokisch
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Prof. Dr. habil. Rodrigo Jokisch
Center for Basic Studies in Social Theory
Dept. of Political and Social Sciences
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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