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Contemporary society has developed, for itself, a way of reducing its own complexity: algorithms. Their basic function is precisely that of reducing the complexity of expectations – cognitive and normative – and those of the expectations of expectations (juridical decisions). When observed under this lens, algorithms, by way of their artificial communication, equally influence normative expectations (Luhmann) and juridical norms (Hydén). In this article we will attempt to respond to the following question: is it possible to defend the existence of algonormative expectations? In order to respond, methodologically, one seeks to define in what way the employment of the theories of these authors contribute to the development of the concept of algonormative expectations. It is in this direction that one initially approaches Hydén’s bases for algo norms and, at a second stage, one seeks to conjugate them with Luhmannian cognitive expectations. The final question is to verify, alongside the artificial intelligence defended by Esposito, what the conditions are for the observation of algonormative expectations.

Between 2020 and 2023, a period of time assailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, society – as a worldwide social system –experienced a novel kind of communication. The tendency for this communication to exponentially expand is due to the global numbers of people dead, dying or infected. Pandemic communication has arisen in the present to perpetuate itself in all ambiences for every social system around the globe. The health system, in turn, basing itself on the health/disease code, has reacted according to its own logic in the coordination of the actions of doctors. However, the true/false nature of communication arising from questions related to COVID-19 has taken a long time to be tested by the science system. Vaccines and possible treatments for the disease have created issues for political, economic, moral, religious and media matters. The continually expanding trend in pandemic communication has proven that it can hinder the functional differentiation of social systems. Legal communication has not been able to avoid all of the controversy. In the specific case of Law, the problem entails both the judicialization of health and the reverse (where Health becomes Law). Based on the Social Systems Theory Applied to Law, the paper argues that the maintenance of the functional differentiation of the Law system becomes necessary so as for Health not to become Law (and vice versa).

According to current trends in the analysis of new social movements, protests are related to economic issues or social inequalities, particularly those of a religious or ethnic nature which, in turn, produce new communications directed at the political system. The present study aims to determine the relationship between football and the social movements that occurred in Brazil in June 2013, as well as investigate the responses of the political system to these social grievances, centered primarily on the juridification of these social spheres. Thus, it focuses on how the legal and political systems absorb these communications into their self-referential logic. To that end, the methodology used is based on the structural functionalism of Niklas Luhmann and his theory of autopoietic social systems. The results demonstrate that both systems – political and legal – were significantly influenced by football, specifically by the substantial investments allocated to hosting the 2014 World Cup in Brazil which, when contrasted with the low return of public services in the country, reveal the root causes of June 2013. Según las tendencias actuales en el análisis de los nuevos movimientos sociales, las protestas están relacionadas con cuestiones económicas o desigualdades sociales, en particular las de carácter religioso o étnico que, a su vez, producen nuevas comunicaciones dirigidas al sistema político. Este estudio pretende determinar la relación entre el fútbol y los movimientos sociales que se produjeron en Brasil en junio de 2013, así como investigar las respuestas del sistema político a estas demandas sociales, centradas principalmente en la juridificación de estas esferas sociales. Por lo tanto, se centra en cómo los sistemas legales y políticos absorben estas comunicaciones en su lógica autorreferencial. Para ello, la metodología empleada se basa en el funcionalismo estructural de Niklas Luhmann y su teoría de los sistemas sociales autopoiéticos. Los resultados demuestran que el fútbol influyó de forma significativa en ambos sistemas –políticos y legales–, específicamente por las importantes inversiones destinadas a organizar la Copa del Mundo de 2014 en Brasil, que, en contraste con el bajo rendimiento de los servicios públicos en el país, revelan las causas fundamentales de junio de 2013. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2821928