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Towards Critical Sociocybernetics: The Role of Power in the Steering Processes of Social Systems

Friday, 20 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 802A (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)

Language: English

This session seeks to gather researchers and social scientists interested in reflecting upon their conceptual tools in their experiences producing sociological and politological analyses. The aim of this session is to take concepts from critical theory and see how they work within a sociocybernetical, second–order cybernetics complexity studies and social systems theory framework. We are particularly interested in observing the role of power in the steering processes of social systems. Some of the subjects that may be addressed are:

What is the place of power relations in systems theory, complexity studies and sociocybernetics?

How is violence to be understood from a sociocybernetical approach?

How power relations and violence practices become naturalized? How is it possible to denaturalize them?

This session invites contributions that address these questions through topics concerning power relations, violence, injustice and environmental problems, among other contemporary issues. Contributions should draw from concepts pertaining to contemporary critical theories. Contributions may compare or contrast the functioning of categories like subject, dispositif, antagonism, capital or culture industry with the conceptual supply of sociocybernetics, complexity studies and systems theory.

With critical theory we refer not only to its origins with the first school of Frankfurt (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin), but include a wide range of thinkers such as Foucault, Agamben, some linked to psychoanalysis (e.g. Slavoj Žižek), schizoid-analysis (e.g. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari), feminist perspectives (e.g. Judith Butler or Gayatri Spivak), and de-colonialist thinkers such as Boaventura De Sousa Santos, or Walter Mignolo.

Session Organizers:
Juan Carlos BARRON-PASTOR, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico and Jorge CARDIEL, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Chair:
Juan Carlos BARRON-PASTOR, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Oral Presentations
What Is an Event? Constructing Genealogies and Recognizing Discontinuities in Social Phenomena
Jorge CARDIEL, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Stabilizing Normative Contradictions: A Sociocybernetic View on Power.
Michael PAETAU, International Center for Sociocybernetics Studies, Bonn, Germany, Germany
Subversive Gaming, Protocol and Ideology: Reading Hayles, Galloway and Bakhtin
Oguz Ozgur KARADENIZ, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey
Why Did Plato Oppose the Miletian Nature Philosophy?
Arne KJELLMAN, Independent, Sweden
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