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Systems Research and Behavioral Science: Editor-in-Chief Recruitment
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Medium/Kumu blog
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Pando Funding: Financing System Change Networks
12th EUS International Congress
15 > 17/10/2025, Brussels, Belgium, Online Conference
https://www.ues-eus.org/2025/introduction.html
ANTICIPATING SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS
OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Call for Abstracts
Dear Madam, Sir,
For the 12th International Congress of the European Union for Systemics (UES2025), the submission deadline for abstracts is extended to May 31, 2025!
> To find more information about the conference, visit the website : www.ues-eus.org/2025
> To submit your abstract, log in the UES 2025 conference submission portal provided by Microsoft : Submission Portal.
Register on CMT and check “UES2025” in the Conference List.
We look forward to receiving your contribution and welcoming you to the UES2025 Congress!
Should you have any questions, feel free to contact us at congress-ues2025@uclouvain.be.
Best regards,
Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos, President, Conference Chair
Damien Claeys, General Secretary, Conference Co-chair
Alejandra Acevedo De Los Ríos, Conference Co-chair
Barry Oshry writes:
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| What Lies Beneath – Barry Oshry Attached is a comprehensive, refinement of my 5 + decades of research and insights about organic systems. I wrote it during COVID because I thought it was an opportunity to bring my thinking up to date and reach out to audiences we hadn’t been reaching. I think the paper is the best, most up-to-date version of the framework. As its creator, my vision continues to be to put this information into the hands of as many potential users as possible – trainers, program participants, clients, and curious learners. Use it well. Barry Oshry Click here to download “What Lies Beneath” |
Join us at SysPrac25. This year’s conference promises a vibrant mix of inspiring talks, interactive jam sessions, insightful keynote addresses, and fireside chats with leading voices in the field.
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SysPrac25 will include an embedded Summer School and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) track – designed to build real-world competence and deepen your practical application of systems thinking.
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We can’t wait to welcome you to SysPrac25 – where systems thinking meets real-world impact!
SysPrac25 Is Now Open for Booking! | SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation
Oct 17, 2024
On ‘Behavior, Purpose and Teleology’: Enduring Insights from a Cybernetics Classic
On ‘Behavior, Purpose and Teleology’: Enduring Insights from a Cybernetics Classic
[On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/774241602654986/?multi_permalinks=9819588948120161, Örsan Şenalp
says:
Alex Williams’ recent work that aims to update the Gramscian (thus Marxian) theory of hegemony based on cybernetics, second order cybernetics and social complexity science, indicates the right direction yet it misses the most fundamental ingredient for such a vital project. Thais is Bogdanov’s general science of organization which was precursor to both Gramsci’s theory and the systems-complexity paradigm. Theory of hegemony is in its essence is a theory of organization.
[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-19795-7](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-19795-7) ]
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First book to integrate complexity theory with the theorisation and practice of hegemony
Deploys new theoretical resources to rethink the persistence of neoliberalism since 2008
Provides a detailed and original reading of Gramsci, synthesising recent scholarship to demonstrate the absolute modernity of his core ideas
How can we understand power in a world of ever-growing complexity? This book proposes that we can do so by rethinking the theory and practice of political hegemony through the resources of complexity theory. Taking Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony as its starting point, the book argues that the intricacies of contemporary power can be mapped by applying concepts drawn from complexity theory, such as emergence, self-organisation, metastability, and generative entrenchment. It develops an original account of social complexity, drawing upon critical realist sociology, analytic philosophy of science, Marxist and continental philosophies, and neoliberal and anarchist thought. It then draws out the elements of Gramscian hegemony that already align with complexity concepts, such as the balance of forces, common sense, and the historic bloc. On this basis, the book sets out the different dimensions of complex hegemonic power before using this theory to interpret the nature of the power of neoliberalism since 2008.
[One of those papers with ‘a lot going on’ – the paper of the book. h/t Arthur Battram, who also shared https://rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-fascist-atmosphere – good to read in parallel]
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
Both the commonsensical and leading theoretical accounts of entrepreneurship, democracy, and solidarity fail to describe adequately entrepreneurial, democratic, and solidarity-building practices. These accounts are inadequate because they assume a faulty description of human being. In this article we develop an interpretation of entrepreneurship, democratic action, and solidarity-building that relies on understanding human beings as neither primarily thinking nor desiring but as skillful beings. Western human beings are at their best when they are engaged in producing large-scale cultural or historical changes in the way people and things are dealt with. The three domains of human activity where these historical changes are most clearly accomplished are entrepreneurship, democratic action, and solidarity. Section I, guided by a roughly Kuhnian notion of holding on to an anomaly until it re-gestalts the way we see things, offers a general interpretation of how skillful human beings open up new worlds by changing their shared background practices in three ways: reconfiguring, which makes a marginal practice central; crossappropriation, in which one domain of practices takes over useful practices from another domain; and articulating, whereby dispersed or confused practices are brought into clearer focus. An entrepreneur creates a product which reconfigures the practices. This interpretation of entrepreneurial skills is contrasted with current accounts that overlook ehtrepreneurship to concentrate on instrumental or theoretical models of business activities. Section II claims that the most exemplary kind of political action in a liberal democracy is that of political action groups. Such groups produce a change in a nation’s background practices through a kind of speaking that leads to massive cross-appropriation. We describe Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and suggest that it both satisfies the requirements for genuine democratic action that we have established in our examination of other views and lacks their disadvantages. We conclude that the relatively detached action suggested by current theories of liberal democracy fail to do justice to democratic practice. The final section argues that those who claim that a single highest value or procedure provides a source of solidarity that satisfies all the competing interests in a multi-cultural nation always arrive at a solidarity that is too thin to provide for the serious sort of commitments that one would be willing to die for. We propose that solidarity in multi-cultural states implies commitment to a set of thick values, and that when one realizes that these thick values construct one’s identity one is willing to die for them. While political action concerns itself with ordering values, solidarity involves the cultivation of them in such a way that no ordering of them matters. But solidarity is not to be understood as a subjective feeling. It is rather the experience of a group identity, a ‘we’, that sees things and deals with things in terms of shared concerns. This ‘we’ comes to recognize itself when the actions it engages in transform it. The paradigmatic action that transforms such a ‘we’ occurs when a culture figure articulates some forgotten concern or value. As in the cases of entrepreneurship and democratic action, a culture figure cultivates solidarity by changing the background practices in a historical manner. It is concluded that traditional theoretical accounts, by overlooking the primacy of involved skillful activities and the importance of background change, fail to capture the source, the function, and the point of entrepreneurship, liberal democracy, and solidarity.
Link
(PDF) Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity
[well, this certainly seems all present and correct. No lies detected. Includes link to the book at https://monoskop.org/images/2/24/Guattari_Felix_Chaosmosis_An_Ethico-Aesthetic_Paradigm.pdf ]
Timothy Jackson – Chaosmosis
Stream Timothy Jackson – Chaosmosis by Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
This week Timothy Jackson joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Felix Guttari’s Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm.
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Almost 20 years ago, I started thinking about the ergodicity problem in the context of economics. That turned out to be surprisingly fruitful, and now there’s a book about it.
Ole Peters on X: “1/thread🧵 Almost 20 years ago, I started thinking about the ergodicity problem in the context of economics. That turned out to be surprisingly fruitful, and now there’s a book about it. https://t.co/gNLRpqNbiI” / X
Contributor. I write about the future of corporate sustainability
Today’s Most Crucial Leadership Skill Is Systems Thinking
Apr 25, 2025, 01:48pm EDT
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that “Life, um, finds a way.”
YANSS 312 – An introduction to complexity science, chaos theory, and how life, um, finds a wayIn this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that “Life, um, finds a way.”
YANSS 312 – An introduction to complexity science, chaos theory, and how life, um, finds a way – You Are Not So Smart
Trading Bunkers for Block Parties
Trading Bunkers for Block Parties – by Felix de Rosen
Why your neighbors matter more than your predictions.
FELIX DE ROSEN
MAY 08, 2025
08 May 2025, by Barbara Orlando, translated by Tomaso Eridani
How network science can help us understand who will be the next Pope. The study by Soda, Iorio, and Rizzo reveals how status, information and alliances influence the papal election.
In the Network of the Conclave – Bocconi University
Research Papal election
In the Network of the Conclave
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08 May 2025, by Barbara Orlando, translated by Tomaso Eridani
How network science can help us understand who will be the next Pope. The study by Soda, Iorio, and Rizzo reveals how status, information and alliances influence the papal election.
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