Transcript Reflexive Sociology

Reflexive Sociology
Kent Palmer, Ph.D.
[email protected]
http://archonic.net
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL THEORY
CONSORTIUM, Fourth Annual Conference,
May 18-21, 2003
Extension of General Systems
Theory
• Meta-system
• Reflexive Social Special System
• Autopoietic Symbiotic Special
System
• Dissipative Ordering Special System
• System
General Schemas Theory
Ontic Hierarchy
Gaia ?
Social Groups
Organisms
Organs
Cells
Ontological Hierarchy
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Macro-Molecules
Molecules
Atoms
Particles
Quarks
Strings ?
Pluriverse
Kosmos
World
Domain
Meta-system
– Special Systems
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System
Form
Pattern
Monad
Facet
Parts of the Whole
Meta-system
reflexive
autopoietic
dissipative
System
(Proto-gestalt)
Whole less than
sum of parts
Sociable
number
Perfect
number
Amicable
number
(Gestalt)
Whole equal to
sum of parts
Whole greater
than sum of
parts
Mathematical Analogies
Hyper-complex
algebras
Non-orientable
surface
wavicle
Metasystem
sedenions
reflexive
octonioins
Hyper-kleinian
bottle
super breather
autopoietic
quaternions
Kleinian bottle
breather
dissipative
complexnions
Mobius strip
soliton
system
real
Existence and Being
Metasystem
Wild Being1
Enigma (Flesh)
Hyper Being2
Query (Differance)
Reflexive
Autopoietic
Process Being3 Dasein (being-in-the-world)
Dissipative
Pure Being4
System
Subject/Object
Kinds of Being
modality
Pure1
mathesis
psychology
ego
present determinate pointing
-athand
ready- probability
grasping
to-hand
Subject
/Object
Hyper3
in-hand possibility
bearing
Query
Wild4
out-ofhand
encompass Enigma
ing
Process2
propensity
Dasein
Kinds of Sociology
Pure Sociology1 Looks at Subjects
(learning)
as objects of
discipline
Process
Sociology2
(learning to learn)
Hyper
Sociology3
(learning
to learn
to learn)
Wild Sociology4
(learning to learn
to learn to learn)
Normal Academic Sociology
Looks at methods Naïve Philosophical and
and approaches of Methodological Sociology
discipline
Looks at the
absent
foundations of the
discipline
Postmodern Sociology –
Derrida’s Differance,
Heidegger -B-e-i-n-g- (crossed
out)
Undisciplined
NeoPostmodern Sociology -Deleuze, John S Hall, Bataille,
Plotnitsky, Castoriadis
Kinds of Reflexivity
Reflexivity1
Subjects look at each other as objects
Reflexivity2
Dasein is thankful for its Sameness
Reflexivity3
Query is questioning the ability to Question
Reflexivity4
Enigma is confronting itself as sphinx asking the
question “what is conscious social living humanity?”
Mapping of Theories
Eco-system
rhizome
Social Field
socius
Maturana
Varella
Prigogine
Living Organism
body without
organs
Consciousness
desiring
machines
Klir
Artificial
Allopoietic
Systems
tree
Meta-system
Bataille,
Plotnitsky
reflexive O’Malley
social Sandywell
autopoietic
symbiotic
dissipative
ordering
System
Deleuze and
Guattari