Abstract
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
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
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Thesis Eleven |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 55-75 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISSN | 0725-5136 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- autotrancendence
- constraints
- network sociology
- magma
- self-creation
- self-organization