Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism

Woermann, Minka

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“…The works of Holland (1995), Gell-Mann (1994), and Lewin, (1993) mark the underlying understanding of complexity that could be applied over a wide range of disciplines. sciences (Byrne & Callaghan, 2014), humanities (Cilliers, 1998;Woermann, 2016), management sciences (Allen, Maguire, & McKelvey, 2011), and other areas of societal domains such as monitoring and evaluation practices (Klein, 2016), policy making (Levin et al, 2013;Midgley & Richardson, 2007), strategic thinking (Boulton, Allen, & Bowman, 2015), national and global governance (Sjöstedt, 2019), and sustainable development challenges (Wells, 2013).…”

Section: Complexity Theory-a Myriad Of Definitions and Meaningsmentioning

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“…With a genealogy deriving from insights in physics, chemistry and non‐linear maths, biology, cybernetics, and the study of turbulence and systems in far from equilibrium conditions (Dillon, ), the notion of complexity developed from a diverse body of thinking and research. The theoretical and practical principles that inform the range of different theories that deal with the implications related to the notion of complexity (Alhadeff‐Jones, ) have not only informed the knowledge frontiers in the natural sciences but also migrated to inform new theories and frameworks in the social sciences (Byrne & Callaghan, ), humanities (Cilliers, ; Woermann, ), management sciences (Allen, Maguire, & McKelvey, ), and other areas of societal domains such as monitoring and evaluation practices (Klein, ), policy making (Levin et al, ; Midgley & Richardson, ), strategic thinking (Boulton, Allen, & Bowman, ), national and global governance (Sjöstedt, ), and sustainable development challenges (Wells, ).…”

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Identifying general trends and patterns in complex systems research: An overview of theoretical and practical implications

Preiser

2019

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Research on complex systems is becoming more prolific, and there is a need to provide some point of orientation to researchers and practitioners that are drawing on the body of literature that informs the field of complexity research. In this paper, I aim to give an overview of the development of the field and offer some overarching trends and patterns that are recognizable in research on complex systems. The paper then draws on the work to provide six organizing principles of complex systems to inform practical implications and methods for studying and understanding complex systems.

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Section: Complexity Theory-a Myriad Of Definitions and Meaningsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Identifying general trends and patterns in complex systems research: An overview of theoretical and practical implications

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2019

Syst Res Behav Sci

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“…To put it simply, as Wolff (2011;21), "ethics necessarily passes into politics, or in fact, that ethics has always already passed into politics". Politics can be said to be the enactment of the Levinasian primordial ethical relation while ethics is the thinking of the Levinasian primordial ethical relation (Woermann 2016;133). Politics can thus be characterised, in the words of Critchley (2004;178), as "the art of a response to the singular demand of the other".…”

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Enacting Levinas’s Infinite Responsibility as an Ethico-Political Compromise

Andrade

2023

EP&S

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Levinas’s work does not offer us an ethical theory but seeks rather todescribe a pre-originary ethical encounter with the other. Within this face-to-faceencounter with the other, my subjectivity is held hostage because of an originaryasymmetry between us. This ethical asymmetry produces an infinite responsibilityto and for the other, in order that the singularity of the other be preserved. In orderto moderate such a demanding position Levinas introduces the third party whorestores justice by permitting ethical calculation. This marks a move from ethics topolitics. Nonetheless, there remains a lacuna between ethics and politics. I arguefor a reading of Levinas’s claim that the third party is an incessant correction ofthe asymmetry of proximity in order to posit infinite responsibility as thecompromise of ethics with politics. I discuss some implications for business ethics,in particular CSR, in light of these findings.

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“…More precisely, macroscopic complexity showed itself to be the result of simple rules of interaction at the micro level. In the words of Stephen Wolfram, a theoretical physicist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur (Wolfram 2002, see also Sect. 5.2.2):…”

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“…9.1.4. Notably, poststructuralism and postmodernism have been proposed as philosophies of complexity (Cilliers 1998;Cilliers and Spurrett 1999;Woermann 2016). For instance, the philosopher and complexity researcher Paul Cilliers observes (Cilliers 1998, p. ix…”

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Volume II: The Simplicity of Complexity

Glattfelder¹

2019

Information—Consciousness—Reality

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Whereas most of the cosmos is comprised of rather simple large-scale structures, on Earth, we find breathtaking complexity, down to microscopic scales. Indeed, it appears as though the universe is driven by a propensity to assemble ever more complex structures around us, guided by self-organized and emergent behavior. Naively one would expect complexity to be complicated to comprehend. Luckily, in the universe we inhabit, complex systems are encoded by simple rules of interaction. Like Volume I of the Book of Nature being written in the language of mathematics, Volume II, addressing complexity, is composed of simple algorithms decoding reality. Complex systems theory has a long history and raises philosophical questions. One of its most successful formal tools are networks. In fact, complex networks are ubiquitous in the domains of living and non-living complexity. One particular organizational property in complex systems is akin to a "law of nature," giving rise to universal behavior. These patterns, known as scaling laws, are to be found everywhere. Level of mathematical formality: medium to low. We inhabit a very particular place in the universe. The planet we find ourselves residing on is unlike any other patch of cosmic space containing matter. Every day we witness the interaction of a myriad of structures creating a vast richness of intricate behavior. We are surrounded by, and embedded in, a microcosm seething with complexity. Specifically, we are exposed to chemical, biological, and, foremost, technological and socio-economical complexity. Until very recently in the history of human thought, the adjective "complex" was thought to be synonymous with "complicated"-in other words, intractable. While the universe unveiled its fundamental mysteries through the Book of Nature-the age-old metaphor for the circumstance that the regularities in the physical world are explained mathematically by the human mind-the complexity surrounding us seemed incomprehensible. However, one specific cosmic coincidence allowed the human mind to also tackle and decode the behavior of complex systems. Before disentangling complexity itself, the next section will briefly review the notions introduced throughout the narrative of Part I: the two volumes of the Book of Nature.

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Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism

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Identifying general trends and patterns in complex systems research: An overview of theoretical and practical implications

Identifying general trends and patterns in complex systems research: An overview of theoretical and practical implications

Enacting Levinas’s Infinite Responsibility as an Ethico-Political Compromise

Volume II: The Simplicity of Complexity

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