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Kalkül der Form

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Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (1993)

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  1. Space is the Place: The Laws of Form and Social Systems.Michael Schiltz - 2007 - Thesis Eleven 88 (1):8-30.
    It is well known that Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems is grounded in Spencer-Brown’s seminal Laws of Form (LoF) or ‘calculus of indications’. It is also known that the reception of the latter has been rather problematic. This article attempts to describe the construction of LoF, and confront it with Niklas Luhmann’s ontological and epistemological premises. I show how LoF must be considered a protologic, or research into the fundamentals of logical systems. The clue to its understanding is to (...)
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  • Self-chaotization in World Society: An Outline for a Theory of Contextual Differentiation.Aldo Mascareño - 2012 - Cinta de Moebio 44:61-105.
    A high level of complexity and a continuous and always changing relationship among its elements characterizes modern world society. As a result, a constant differentiation and specialization of diverging social fields aiming to reduce the uncertainty emerging from that complexity takes place. Paradoxically, as differentiation and specialization increase, they become a new source of uncertainty. In order to confront this self-producing ambiguity, some social operations develop structural interdependencies with a sufficient level of operational stability that distinguish them from their environment. (...)
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