Theorie sozialer Systeme (Luhmann)

Treibel, Annette

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-97480-8_2

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“…We should not fail to recognize that human social structures such as cultures, or any other organization, institutions, governments, and so forth, only exist on the basis of a shared belief that integrates individuals into a collective by providing a collective purpose [127][128][129]. So, basically, what holds together a social organism are cultural ideas and instructional habits of thought-or memes-and their communication [130,131].…”

Section: The Invisible Foundation Of Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, further knowledge synthesis is needed in this regard. Third, although we have been critical of top-down approaches and bureaucracy, it is certainly an achievement of modernity to have produced a "social ontology" [129,202] that differs from the "natural ontology", namely functionally differentiated social subsystems [127,203]. What has been forgotten in modernity, however, is the fact that the entire "social ontology" is only viable if it is compatible and in resonance with the "natural ontology".…”

Section: Outlook: a Glimpse Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating the Biocosmos: Cornerstones of a Bioeconomic Utopia

Onyeali,

Schlaile,

Winkler

2023

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One important insight from complexity science is that the future is open, and that this openness is an opportunity for us to participate in its shaping. The bioeconomy has been part of this process of “future-making”. But instead of a fertile ecosystem of imagined futures, a dry monoculture of ideas seems to dominate the landscape, promising salvation through technology. With this article, we intend to contribute to regenerating the ecological foundations of the bioeconomy. What would it entail if we were to merge with the biosphere instead of machines? To lay the cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia, we explore the basic principles of self-organization that underlie biological, ecological, social, and psychological processes alike. All these are self-assembling and self-regulating elastic structures that exist at the edge of chaos and order. We then revisit the Promethean problem that lies at the foundation of bioeconomic thought and discuss how, during industrialization, the principles of spontaneous self-organization were replaced by the linear processes of the assembly line. We ultimately propose a bioeconomy based on human needs with the household as the basic unit: the biocosmos. The biocosmos is an agroecological habitat system of irreducible complexity, a new human niche embedded into the local ecosystem.

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Section: The Invisible Foundation Of Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%