Authors as Strategic Constructions in the Multimedia Age

What does it mean to be an author as the practices associated with connective and/or collective intelligence continue spreading through the world of the mass-media? More specifically, how are authors, and publishers as well, already undergoing important transformations as new information and communication technologies allow the capitalization of knowledge? The diverse philosophical and sociological implications of this question are explored below in contexts ranging from industrialorganizational knowledge work, to the creation and marketing of popular literary fiction. At both of these extremes, however, the central thesis is "depersonalization." That is, it will be argued that the effect of the new information/communication systems is to dilute, conceal, or entirely eliminate identification of the single mind or minds that have been absorbed into the systems

communicating intangible value the case of contemporary art

The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of dematerialization of art, which is increasingly evident. This phenomenon of increasing abstraction is emerging in complex evolutionary systems of communication in multiple forms (from the presumed real economy to finance, from human resources management to the expansion of intellectual capital formalized in trademarks, patents, licenses, copyrights, etc.,). The abstraction of contemporary art reflects a complex phenomenon that can be defined as hypercitizenship in the sense that the levels of observational and operational expertise required for a system to evolve autopoietically are increasingly sophisticated in terms of the four characteristics featuring hypercitizenship: cosmopolitanism, entrepreneurship, scientificity and social autonomy, as compared to the specifics of the art system

Globalizzazione del diritto, comportamento manageriale e corruzione

La globalizzazione del diritto conduce ad un processo di differenziazione funzionale della norma più marcato rispetto al passato: la norma giuridica rivela tutta la sua gelida potenza kelseniana e la sua intrinseca razionalità law & economics nel fissare standard e la norma sociale si rivela come leva ehrlichiana ribollente di costumi, passioni e valori di tipo sociale, ma anche politico. La globalizzazione del diritto porta con sé l’istanza di un diritto globale kelseniano ed isotropico ed al contempo una grande emancipazione de-regolativa dai costumi e dalle convenzioni sociali: da qui la sociologia del sistema giuridico di Luhmann che espunge l’essere umano in carne ed ossa dal sistema giuridico così come i valori, l’etica e la morale vengono considerate solo mere eruzioni di soggettività. In questo scenario, dunque, come si configura la costruzione positiva del concetto di corruzione in senso giuridico, politologico e sociologico dal caso Enron fino al più frustrato colletto bianco descritto da Wright Mills o Crozier che, in ogni spazio d’incertezza, vede la chance di crearsi un potere che nessun ordinamento gli ha mai riconosciuto

O desafio da hipercidadania ao nacionalismo metodológico

This paper analyzes the developments and paradigm shifts in the conceptual frame of systemic sociology. It provides a description of the socio-systemic global society as it attempts to unravel the future trajectories through which the society will evolve. In 2012, it becomes necessary for the citizen to increase the skills required to decode the scenarios around him/her, turning him/herself into a hypercitizen. This is a two goal work as the systemic approach utilizes a conceptual toolkit to understand the new global challenges and through its reconfiguration system traces the foundations for a new society form. This paper redesigns the conceptual map of global change through a systemic epistemology of sociology of law, the creation of laws (rule by law procedures) that can facilitate and accelerate the convergence of riconfigurational technologies, reshape this new form of citizenship. Hypercitizenship, through the evolution of 9 turbo conditions can be used to develop and maintain a global scenario. The speed of global exchanges, trade, and capital flows (human, economic and intellectual ones) worldwide will be managed through a platform with standardized procedures and technologies such as languages and currencies worldwide.Este trabalho analisa  as mudanças dos desenvolvimentos  e paradigmas no quadro da sociologia sistemática. Fornece uma descrição da sociedade global sócio-sistemática enquanto tenta desvendar as trajetórias futuras as quais a sociedade irá evoluir. Em 2012, torna-se necessária para os cidadãos aumentarem as capacidades exigidas para decodificar os cenários ao redor deles, transformando-se em hiper-cidadãos.  Este é um trabalho de dois objetivos visto que o método sistemático utiliza um kit de ferramentas conceitual para entender os novos desafios globais e através do seu sistema de reconfiguração traça as bases para uma nova forma de sociedade Este trabalho redesenha o conceito de mudança global através um sistema epistemológico sociologia de direito, a criação de leis (governam por procedimentos legais) que podem facilitar e acelerara convergência de tecnologias re-configurais, remodelar esta nova forma de cidadania. A hiper-cidadania, através da evolução de 9 condições turbo podem ser usadas para desenvolver e manter um cenário global. A velocidade de intercâmbios globais, comércio e fluxos mundiais de capital (humanos, econômicos e intelectuais) serão gerenciados através de uma plataforma com procedimentos e tecnologias padronizadas tais como línguas e moedas mundiais

Epistemologia Sistêmica em Pierre Delattre e a Construção de uma Ciência Jurídica Complexa

O artigo expõe as principais questões epistemológicas suscitadas pela teoria dos sistemas de acordo com Pierre Delattre. O objetivo é compreender, a partir do pensamento desse autor, implicações para o desenvolvimento de conhecimento jurídico que não desconsidere os problemas sociais e econômicos em suas formulações teóricas. Para isso, a partir da revisão bibliográfica da principal obra do autor, além de outros escritos, apresenta as reflexões de Delattre sobre os problemas epistemológicos relativos a linguagem científica interdisciplinar, métodos do reducionismo e do holismo, relações entre partes e todo nos sistemas, limites entre sistema e ambiente, explicações causais e finalísticas, geração de ordem a partir do caos e formulação de hipóteses científicas para sistemas complexos. Levanta questões que esses problemas apresentam para a ciência jurídica e conclui demonstrando a necessidade de produção de um conhecimento jurídico complexo e alguns dos problemas que essa construção precisa enfrentar

Setting the agenda of a counter-terrorism strategic policy model

The aim of this paper is to present a functional model to fight terrorism from macro perspective through a “Strategic Policy Model” (SPM). The focus on legal order within the practices of Sociology of Law and Criminology is pivotal in order to reframe terrorism within a viable SPM. In “The Counterterrorism Handbook”, written by Bolz, Dudonis, and Schulz (2005), terrorism, at its very basic level, is defined as “an action that the urban guerrilla must execute with the greatest cold bloodedness, calmness and decision”. They further go on to provide a more scholarly definition: “the calculated use of violence to attain goals which are political, religious or ideological in nature. Terrorism involves a criminal act that is often symbolic in nature and intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims”

The Horizontal Constitutions

The goal of this paper is to describe the “horizontalization” of state/national constitutions in a scenario of globalizing law, where the Supranational World Order Legislative Policy Modelling (WOLPM) is dramatically redesigning the traditional hierarchy of legal sources, whose top were with state–national constitutions. The current scenario is radically different and state/national constitutions are no longer frameworks for law-making; rather they are part of a larger frame, but rather framed in a different framework. This new framework is vertically shorter and horizontally much longer, as transnational and supranational treaties are shifting the sovereignty is going more and more supranational and global; as a consequence, a condition of interdependence is emerging, which shapes a non-reversible network of networks. This horizontalization process evolves the innovative power of the legislative function in the global law system; this system is the one which can proactively support an innovation policy viable to the key challenges of our times. Furthermore, this power shift leverages and increases the quality of democracy: by a dramatical downsizing of the meso and the micro organizational Wiliamson’s costs -which can also facilitate a direct link between the macro and the psycho-social levels- an evolution seems to be emerging from different peoples to one People (eg: from the EU member states peoples to the EU people). A better comprehension of this evolution is based upon two theoretical grounds. On one side, Lawrence Friedman’s works about the globalization of culture and technology, which is also recombining social, political and religious traditions in the globalized law making process. On the other side the Luhmann-Teubner’s vision based on the concept of Law System (just one and global all over the planet); in this case, a Global Law System is implies two evolutive directions: a vertical direction, which means increasing law production at the top of this System; and a horizontal direction, consisting of structural couplings with local juridical social systems. These couplings can also show conflictual features. As a matter of fact, as Teubner points out, there is a crisis in traditional constitutionalism, that is caused by transnationalization. As a matter of fact, traditional constitutionalism is Nation-state based and hardly can it accept supranational sovereignties. Furthermore, tendencies are strong among social systems, to put themselves outside the state and to engender individual or institutional autonomy. In order to foresee the possible outcome of this trend, the best theoretical tool is the system/environment distinction. This notions draws a neat distinction between a more and more formalized and unified global world order (through supranational treaties as mentioned above) and a more and more turbulent and noisy environment, consisting of strong protests. According to systemic theory, irritation and resonance might make the law system oscillate, nevertheless the noisy environment has no construction function

Hypercitizenship and the Management of Genetic Diversity. Sociology of Law and the Key Systemic Bifurcation Between the RING Singularity and the Neofeudal Age

Questo saggio di tipo teorico si focalizza sulla funzione allocativa dei sistemi legali per attrarre/respingere capitali differenti sulla base delle proprie procedure di creazione di norme e leggi. Tale funzione dei sistemi legali è di primaria importanza al giorno d’oggi dato che il genere umano è prima di tutto una biforcazione evoluzionistica e sistemica che si situa tra il concetto heideggeriano di Gegnet di una convergenza strategica ed altamente rapida (ad esempio, la Singolarità) fra robotica, informatica, nanotecnologie e genetica (RINGs) – che sta ridisegnando la vita umana relativamente ai suoi stili e standard qualitativi di vita con particolare riferimento agli ambiti della salute e dell’ambiente – ed il così detto Scenario Neofeudale (NS) proposto da coloro che ritengono che il Modello Industriale abbia fallito e che l’unica via per salvare il genere umano ed il suo ambiente dovrebbe essere una sorta di viaggio a ritroso nel tempo per riproporre lo stile di vita medioevale caratterizzato da lentezza ed austerità. Questo saggio ripercorre la più recente ed autorevole letteratura internazionale relativa alle due alternative di biforcazione e prospetta un potenziale mutamento di paradigma nell’ambito dell’approccio sistemico al fine di ristrutturare la mappa concettuale del mutamento globale attraverso un’epistemologia sistemica della sociologia del diritto. Cet essai se focalise sur la fonction allocative des systèmes judiciaires exercée pour attirer/rejeter des capitaux différents sur la base de leur propres procédures de création de règles juridiques et de lois. Cette fonction est aujourd’hui d’une importance fondamentale. En effet, le genre humain est avant tout une bifurcation évolutionniste et systémique entre le concept heideggérien de Gegnet d’une convergence stratégique et extrêmement rapide (par exemple, la Singularité) parmi la robotique, l’informatique, les nanotechnologies et la génétique (RINGs) – qui est en train de redessiner la vie humaine par rapport à ses styles et ses standards qualitatifs de vie et tout particulièrement aux domaines de la santé et de l’environnement - et ce qu’on appelle le Scenario Néo-féodal (NS) proposé par ceux qui pensent que le Modèle Industriel a échoué et que le seul moyen de sauver le genre humain et son environnement serait une espèce de voyage en arrière dans le temps pour proposer de nouveau le style de vie du Moyen-âge caractérisé par la lenteur et l’austérité. Cet essai examine la littérature internationale la plus récente et la plus influente concernante les deux alternatives de bifurcation et avance une modification potentielle de paradigme dans l’approche systémique afin de reformuler la carte conceptuelle du changement global à travers une épistémologie systémique de la sociologie du droit. This essay is essentially theoretical and is focused on the allocative function of the legal systems to attract/reject different capitals according to their procedures to shape norms and laws. This function of the legal systems is pivotal in our times as humankind is before a systemic and evolutionary bifurcation between the heideggerian Gegnet of a strategic, high speed convergence (i.e. Singularity) among robotics, informatics, nanotechonologies and genetics (RINGs) - which is going to reshape the human life concerning its life quality styles and standards especially regarding health and environment matters- and the so called Neofeudal Scenario (NS) supported by whom the Industrial Model failed and the only way to save humankind and its environment would be a kind of trip back to a Medioeval life style inspired by slowness and austerity. This essay provides an overview of the most important and recent international references about the two alternatives of the bifurcation and describes a potential paradigm shift inside the systemic approach to reframe the conceptual map of global change through a systemic epistemology of the sociology of law

Hypercitizenship and the Management of Genetic Diversity/Hyper-citoyenneté et gestion de la diversité génétique. La sociologie du droit et la bifurcation systemique principale entre la singularité du RING et l'âge néoféodale

Cet essai se focalise sur la fonction allocative des systèmes judiciaires exercée pour attirer/rejeter des capitauxdifférents sur la base de leur propres procédures de création de règles juridiques et de lois. Cette fonction estaujourd’hui d’une importance fondamentale. En effet, le genre humain est avant tout une bifurcation évolutionniste etsystémique entre le concept heideggérien de Gegnet d’une convergence stratégique et extrêmement rapide (parexemple, la Singularité) parmi la robotique, l’informatique, les nanotechnologies et la génétique (RINGs) – qui est entrain de redessiner la vie humaine par rapport à ses styles et ses standards qualitatifs de vie et tout particulièrement auxdomaines de la santé et de l’environnement - et ce qu’on appelle le Scenario Néo-féodal (NS) proposé par ceux quipensent que le Modèle Industriel a échoué et que le seul moyen de sauver le genre humain et son environnement seraitune espèce de voyage en arrière dans le temps pour proposer de nouveau le style de vie du Moyen-âge caractérisé par lalenteur et l’austérité. Cet essai examine la littérature internationale la plus récente et la plus influente concernante lesdeux alternatives de bifurcation et avance une modification potentielle de paradigme dans l’approche systémique afin dereformuler la carte conceptuelle du changement global à travers une épistémologie systémique de la sociologie du droit.AbstractThis essay is essentially theoretical and is focused on the allocative function of the legal systems to attract/rejectdifferent capitals according to their procedures to shape norms and laws. This function of the legal systems is pivotal inour times as humankind is before a systemic and evolutionary bifurcation between the heideggerian Gegnet of astrategic, high speed convergence (i.e. Singularity) among robotics, informatics, nanotechonologies and genetics(RINGs) - which is going to reshape the human life concerning its life quality styles and standards especially regardinghealth and environment matters- and the so called Neofeudal Scenario (NS) supported by whom the Industrial Modelfailed and the only way to save humankind and its environment would be a kind of trip back to a Medioeval life styleinspired by slowness and austerity.This essay provides an overview of the most important and recent international references about the two alternatives ofthe bifurcation and describes a potential paradigm shift inside the systemic approach to reframe the conceptual map ofglobal change through a systemic epistemology of the sociology of law