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Disseminatorik. Zur Dekonstruktion Der Techno-Logik, Rudolf Kaehr Jan 1995

Disseminatorik. Zur Dekonstruktion Der Techno-Logik, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

POLYKONTEXTURALE LOGIK. Zur Konzeption, Formalisierung und Validierung. PROÖMIK UND DISSEMINATORIK Abbreviaturen transklassischen Denkens. DISKONTEXTURALITATEN: WOZU NEUE FORMEN DES DENKENS? Zur Kritik der logischen Voraussetzungen der Second Order Cybernetics und der Systemtheorie DISSEMINATORIK: ZUR LOGIK DER 'SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS' Von den 'Laws of Form' zur Logik der Reflexionsform VOM 'SELBST' IN DER SELBSTORGANISATION Reflexionen zu den Problemen der Konzeptionalisierung und Formalisierung selbstbezüglicher Strukturbildungen SUFI´S DRAI: WOZU DISKONTEXTURALITATEN IN DER AI ? KALKÜLE FÜR SELBSTREFERENTIALITAT ODER SELBSTREFERENTIELLE KALKÜLE? SKIZZE EINER GRAPHEMATISCHEN SYSTEMTHEORIE Zur Problematik der Heterarchie verteilter Systeme im Kontext der New „second-order“ Cybernetics EINÜBUNG IN EINE ANDERE LEKTÜRE. Diagramm einer Rekonstruktion …


Scientific Discipline And The Origins Of Race: A Foucaultian Reading Of The History Of Biology, Ladelle Mcwhorter Jan 1995

Scientific Discipline And The Origins Of Race: A Foucaultian Reading Of The History Of Biology, Ladelle Mcwhorter

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Foucault's "power-knowledge" is a controversial concept. Brought into English-speaking theoretical circles less than two decades ago, its meaning and range of applicability are still in dispute. While no one denies that some fields of social scientific knowledge (such as criminology) intersect institutionally with mechanisms of power, these intersections do not seem, to many, to constitute any essential relation of "mutual reinforcement" between knowledge and power. If, in rare cases, politics and scientific research are admitted to be mutually constitutive, the results of their mingling are typically dismissed as propaganda or pseudo-science. A few thinkers are willing to allow the entirety …