The NSDAP’s Operational Codes after 1933*

Nolzen, Armin

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“…“This is true for another public as well, that of social work ( Volkswohlfahrt , Arbeiterwohlfahrt , Winterhilfswerk , see Nolzen, forthcoming; Götz, 2001), which was so important in guaranteeing support for the Nazi regime that the idea of calling the Nazi regime an instantiation of an attempt by the functional system of social work to absorb the whole of society seems not too farfetched. The functional system of social work is actually the only system on the level of society that decides on questions of inclusion and exclusion (Baecker, 1994), as otherwise only organizations can do by their usual practice of hiring and firing.…”

Section: Swarm Analysis Of the Nazi Dictatorship As A Formmentioning

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Digital analysis of a form

Oksas

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to show how a sociological description – a swarm analysis of the Nazi dictatorship – initially made with the means borrowed from George Spencer-Brown’s Calculus of Indications, can be transformed into a digital circuit and with which methods and tools of digital mathematics this digital circuit can be analyzed and described in its behavior. Thus, the paper also aims to contribute to a better understanding of Chapter 11 of “Laws of Form.” Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses methods of automata theory for finite, deterministic automata. Basic set operations of digital mathematics and special set operations of the Boolean Differential Calculus are used to calculate digital circuits. The software used is based on ternary logic, in which the binary Boolean logic of the elements {0, 1} is extended by the third element “Don’t care” to {0, 1, −}. Findings The paper confirms the method of transforming a form into a digital circuit derived from the comparative functional and structural analysis of the Modulator from Chapter 11 of “Laws of Form” and defines general rules for this transformation. It is shown how the indeterminacy of re-entrant forms can be resolved in the medium of time using the methods of automata theory. On this basis, a refined definition of the degree of a form is presented. Originality/value The paper shows the potential of interdisciplinary approaches between sociology and information technology and provides methods and tools of digital mathematics such as ternary logic, Boolean Differential Calculus and automata theory for application in sociology.

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Section: Swarm Analysis Of the Nazi Dictatorship As A Formmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital analysis of a form

Oksas

2021

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The NSDAP After 1933

Nolzen¹

2018

A Companion to Nazi Germany

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Medicalization of Social Policies: Defining Health, Defining Illness

Caleb

2022

The International Library of Bioethics

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This chapter examines the process of medicalization as it relates to both social policies implemented during the Nazi regime and contemporary social policies. Medicalization is the process of framing a social problem as a medical condition, thereby identifying the source of the problem as one of individual accountability and emphasizes the need to treat or cure the individual. When applied to social policies, this framework perpetuates dividing practices that create categories of social health and social sickness and allow for the control of individuals and groups of individuals. Nazi social policies were grounded in their racial hygiene agenda, which meant medicalizing individuals who participated in so-called deviant behavior, who contributed, or failed to contribute, to the nation’s welfare, and who were considered a threat to the citizenry and the health of the nation. This same medicalization of social policies is evident today in countries’ approaches to regulating sexual and criminal behavior, limiting government assistance, and restricting borders.

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The NSDAP’s Operational Codes after 1933*

Cited by 35 publications

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Digital analysis of a form

Digital analysis of a form

The NSDAP After 1933

Medicalization of Social Policies: Defining Health, Defining Illness

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