![]() When objects enter into exo-relations with other objects. Towards a utopianism that ignores material constraints on the activity of objects Self-regulation and self-production of objects, and the manner in which objectsĬonstitute their own information, autopoietic theory tends ![]() In its focus on the operational closure of objects, the Respect to social relations, but rather besets all discussions of exo-relations with In point of fact, this shortcoming of autopoietic theory arises not simply with “abstractly”, as Marxist theorists like to say, only in thought, but not in ![]() Somewhat finer point on it-it is disposed of by systems theory, but only It seems that the category ofĬontradiction-insofar as it names precisely this difference-proves much moreĭifficult to dispose of than Luhmann's systems theory imagines. ![]() The formal equivalence of observers in his epistemology and their real lack ofĮquivalence on the material, social plane. Luhmann's inability or unwillingness to adequately theorize the discrepancy between Unspoken distinction between “differentiation” and what historicist, materialistĬritique has theorized as “contradiction”, a blind spot that manifests itself in Spot”, his unobservable constitutive distinction, is his
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