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2. Moral communication and legal uncertainty in small and medium enterprises
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Winczorek, Jan
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- 2022
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3. Understanding cognitive transport mode choice structures: means-ends chains as a type of second-order cybernetics
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Kolar, Tomaž and Kolar, Iztok
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- 2022
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4. Arthur Bispo do Rosário: lunacy, art and second-order cybernetics.
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Figueiredo, Carlos Senna
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CYBERNETICS ,INSANITY (Law) ,CLOTHING & dress ,MUSEUMS ,PEOPLE with mental illness ,EMBROIDERY - Abstract
Arthur Bispo do Rosário created separate realities inspired by the objects of his surroundings. He intended to summon up everything and report to God. The objects he found or got from other inmates were waste of the Juliano Moreira Colony where he lived in seclusion because the lords of order categorised him as mentally ill. Bispo began by unravelling the uniforms of his seafaring days and Colony clothing and with the threads he wove maps and banners. He collected old shoes, empty milk bags, gears, tools, toys, cutlery, bottles, mugs to shape into powerful amalgams of odd aesthetic narrative. As pieces of the Colony waste were given to Bispo by other inmates and as he turned the scraps into art, his creative strength was offered to the hospital's population and now to museums and art galleries. The observation of this cycle of stunning wonder between Bispo and his fellow inmates suggests the view of unravelling second-order cybernetic processes. Simple things of the world turned into art got new significance in the eyes of the observers. Their poor world became thrilled in delight. As an inmate of a psychiatric ward in Rio de Janeiro, he never stopped his intense and endless work building an inventory of embroidery, assemblages and objects deemed to present the Lord. His work captured the aesthetic sensibility of the Colony population who started viewing the common things of the world redeemed by Bispo as sacred uncaged tokens with divine destination. A virtuous unending cycle of human sensibility and creativity. As observers, we make the distinction of evolving processes in the realm of second-order cybernetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Moral communication and legal uncertainty in small and medium enterprises
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Jan Winczorek
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Control and Systems Engineering ,business.industry ,Social system ,Computer Science (miscellaneous) ,Small and medium-sized enterprises ,Sociology ,business ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Second-order cybernetics ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Risk management ,Industrial organization ,Theoretical Computer Science - Abstract
PurposeThe links between moral communication and legal communication have long been studied in sociology of law. Little has yet been said about moral communication invoking when communication in the legal system is impossible, ineffective or uncertain. The paper fills this gap to demonstrate that systems theory-based sociology of law can effectively recognise the role of moral communication in such situations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents an empirical study of moral communication in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It focused on situations when SMEs' interactions with function systems, particularly the legal system, result in irremovable legal uncertainty. The data depict strategies of managing such uncertainty and were obtained in a paths-to-justice survey of 7,292 owners and managers of SMEs and 101 in-depth interviews. The findings are interpreted using the author's concept of “uncertainty translation”, rooted in Luhmann's systems theory. It suggests that business organisations such as SMEs deal with the ubiquitous uncertainty in their operations by translating it into a convenient type.FindingsThe study distinguishes between formative and absorbing moral communication and finds that both types play a role in steering the uncertainty translation mechanism in SMEs. Six scenarios of invoking moral communication are identified in SMEs dealing with legal uncertainty. In such scenarios, moral communication facilitates the translation of business uncertainty “away from law”. Under some circumstances, this, in turn, leads to latent systematic results, reflexively affecting the legal system, the economic system and the SMEs.Research limitations/implicationsIn its core argument, the study is based on qualitative material. While it identifies empirical scenarios of invoking moral communication, it does not report the prevalence of these scenarios due to methodological limitations.Originality/valueThe study results pose questions related to the staple theoretical issue in post-Luhmannian social systems theory: functional differentiation. If moral communication–a type of communication not linked to any social system–can produce far-reaching, systematic results that affect function systems, then the functional differentiation thesis should be less pronounced than Luhmann typically stressed. This said, the paper argues that the contradiction between the findings and Luhmannian theory of morality is only apparent and may be reconciled.
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- 2021
6. Epilogue to "Questioning Life and Cognition" by John Stewart.
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Froese, Tom
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PROLOGUES & epilogues ,COGNITION ,INTERNET publishing ,EDUCATORS ,SCIENTIFIC community - Abstract
In 2012, John Stewart contributed a book manuscript entitled " Questioning Life and Cognition: Some Foundational Issues in the Paradigm of Enaction " to the Enaction Series in Online Collaborative Publishing, edited by Olivier Gapenne and Bruno Bachimont. Along with Mattéo Mossio, I was invited by Olivier to serve as a glossator of this text. The purpose was to thereby continue our long and fruitful dialogues with John that began when we were both students. I took advantage of the opportunity to also express my gratitude to John for his participation in that formative stage of my personal academic journey. My reflections were included as an epilogue to his book. In memoriam, the epilogue is reproduced in this report unchanged. I will always be grateful to John for making the research community of enaction feel like family to me and for helping me recognize that there is a place for my diverse interests in the continued pursuit of an academic career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. Le differenze ecologiche: Sistemi e ambienti tra General Systems Theory e Second-Order Cybernetics
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Fabbris, Luca
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ecologia dei sistemi ,General Systems Theory ,cibernetica di second’ordine ,Autopoiesis ,Systems Ecology ,autopoiesi ,teoria generale dei sistemi ,ecologia generale ,chiusura operativa ,Second-Order Cybernetics ,Operational closure ,General Ecology - Abstract
L’articolo si propone di indagare le implicazioni ecologiche di due differenti tendenze sistemiche: (1) La General Systems Theory (GST) di Ludwig von Bertalanffy, che fa da cornice alla Systems Ecology di Eugene Odum; (2) La Second-Order Cybernetics (SOC) elaborata da Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana e Niklas Luhmann, che costituisce la matrice di un nuovo paradigma ecologico denominato General Ecology. Nell’articolo verranno comparate la GST e la SOC in relazione ai loro differenti modi di intendere il sistema e la sua genesi; il ruolo dell’osservatore nella definizione dei confini di un sistema; e la relazione tra sistema e ambiente. Verrà mostrato come la SOC, mettendo in causa il principio del controllo gerarchico della GST, conduce alla nozione di differenze ecologiche, con la quale si indica una pluralità di diadi sistema-ambiente, problematizzando così la nozione di ambiente come riferimento fisico e oggettivo., This paper investigates the ecological implications of two different trends in systems science: (1) Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory (GST), which establishes the framework of Eugene Odum’s Systems Ecology; (2) Second-Order Cybernetics (SOC), a systemic approach outlined by Heinz von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, and Niklas Luhmann, in which the roots of a new ecological paradigm called General Ecology can be found. In the article, GST and SOC will be compared with respect to their different ways of conceiving a system and its genesis; the role of the observer in defining the boundaries of a system; and the relation between system and environment. It will be shown how SOC, contrasting the principle of hierarchical control of GST, leads to the notion of ecological differences, which indicates a plurality of system-environment dyads, problematizing the idea of environment as a physical and objective reference.
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- 2021
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