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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 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Prof. Dr. habil. Rodrigo Jokisch Center for Basic Studies in Social Theory Dept. of Political and Social Sciences Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Circuito Mario de la Cueva S/N Edificio E, 2o. Nivel cub. 201 Coyoacán, 04510 México D.F. 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