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Dear Lubomir, you should not bluster about Niklas Luhmann, when you know apparently nothing of him except his name. He has been working on sociological systems theory from 1968 to 1998 (when he died) and he never had a humanistic approach. Best, Jonas __________ >Hi guys, > >What's going on? Is the system's approach coming in fashion again, or we >just bump upon people who use it? I thought that System's is buried long >ago, after the post-modernists too the upper hand. I haven't read Luhman's >book and I am astonished he had endulged in system's thinking. At the >apogee of the system's approach he was doing humanistic sociology, and now, >when everybody had hooked on deconstruction, he goes to system's approach? >I don't have the time to track these developments. All these fads are >cyclic -- but do we head towards a revival of system's thinking and >functionalism? I am just curious, no judgement at all. I myself am a >ex-system's and from time to time look back to the System's rhetoric with >mixed feeilngs. I would like to hear more people on the list about this. >How is Klauss doing? > >Regards, > >Lubomir > >At 03:22 PM 9/4/2002 +0100, Riley, Howard wrote: >>Hi, Marte, There is another body of research which deals with the term >>system : It stems from Michael Halliday's work in linguistics, which has >>been adapted to the visual arts by Michael O'Toole 1994 The Language of >>Displayed Art London: Pinter Press ISBN 0 7185 1940 X (pb) >>Halliday theorised language communication as a systemic-functional model, >>meaning that we select appropriate terms from the available systems of >>choices (eg., vocabulary, grammar, syntax systems) so as to enable the three >>functions of communication: the representational, the interpersonal, and the >>compositional. O'Toole explains this approach clearly, applied to painting, >>sculpture and architecture. Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen 1996 Reading >>Images. The Grammar of Visual Design London: Routledge ISBN 0 415 10600 1 >>(pb) also adapt Halliday's systemic-functional model. >>You may like to see my papers which adapt Halliday's model to the visual >>arts, particularly drawing. Go to www.generativeart.com or >>www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey and click on research. >>Kind regards, Howard. >>Dr Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA) >>Coordinator for Postgraduate Research >>School of Art & Design >>Swansea Institute >>Townhill Road >>Swansea SA2 0UT >>UK >>Phone +01792 481285 >>Fax +01792 205305 >>email [log in to unmask] --