Autotranscendence and Creative Organization: On self-creation and Self-organization
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Autotranscendence and Creative Organization : On self-creation and Self-organization. / Michelsen, Anders Ib.
In: Thesis Eleven, Vol. 88, No. 1, 2007, p. 55-75.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Autotranscendence and Creative Organization
T2 - On self-creation and Self-organization
AU - Michelsen, Anders Ib
N1 - nummer med titel: "Autopoiesis : Autology, Autotranscendence and Autonomy”
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This article discusses the issue of social and cultural ‘autotran- scendence’ – self-production, creativity – in the debates on self-organization. The point of departure is Cornelius Castoriadis’s idea of ‘self-creation’. First, a schismabetween mechanical and ontological modeling is indicated and used to introduce the idea of a ‘creative organization’. This is further discussed in relation to Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of social ‘autotranscendence’ by ‘complex methodological individualism’, with particular respect to the incom- prehensionof the social. Following Johann P. Arnason’s treatment of the question of cultural articulation in Castoriadis, the article argues that the problem of autotranscendence presents a further problem of self-creation discernible in Castoriadis’s notions of phusis/nomos, living being/human, and constraint/ magma. The article closes with a consideration of Duncan Watts, Alberto-László Barabási and Bernardo Huberman’s sketch of a network sociology. KEYWORDS autotrancendence • constraints • magma • network sociology • self-creation • self-organization
AB - This article discusses the issue of social and cultural ‘autotran- scendence’ – self-production, creativity – in the debates on self-organization. The point of departure is Cornelius Castoriadis’s idea of ‘self-creation’. First, a schismabetween mechanical and ontological modeling is indicated and used to introduce the idea of a ‘creative organization’. This is further discussed in relation to Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of social ‘autotranscendence’ by ‘complex methodological individualism’, with particular respect to the incom- prehensionof the social. Following Johann P. Arnason’s treatment of the question of cultural articulation in Castoriadis, the article argues that the problem of autotranscendence presents a further problem of self-creation discernible in Castoriadis’s notions of phusis/nomos, living being/human, and constraint/ magma. The article closes with a consideration of Duncan Watts, Alberto-László Barabási and Bernardo Huberman’s sketch of a network sociology. KEYWORDS autotrancendence • constraints • magma • network sociology • self-creation • self-organization
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - autotrancendence
KW - constraints
KW - network sociology
KW - magma
KW - self-creation
KW - self-organization
U2 - 10.1177/0725513607072457
DO - 10.1177/0725513607072457
M3 - Journal article
VL - 88
SP - 55
EP - 75
JO - Thesis Eleven
JF - Thesis Eleven
SN - 0725-5136
IS - 1
ER -
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