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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Autopoiesis"”.
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Nietzsche on Individual Autopoiesis: Critical Dialogue with Ethno-philosophy of Shienyu Ni Shienyuand Cosmopoeisis
The argument in this dissertation revolves aroundapositive reading of Nietzsche on the tragic nature of existence. The specificnarrative being advanced is that for Nietzsche, the task of individual fashioning must be conceived and examined within the tragic nature of existence. In fact, it can be …
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Translating Embodiment: A Look at Language and Cognition of Dance Performance from Studio to Stage
… cognitive science topics of the “thinking body,” autopoiesis, appraisal and arousal, kinesthetic empathy, and linguistic determinism with an eye towards the dancing body. How might such scientific notions play into answering questions of corporeity and embodiment explored so exquisitely in dance …
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What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful
… autonomous characteristics through the lenses of autopoiesis and panpsychism.
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Law and Artificial Intelligence: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis
… to maintain legal autonomy—or in SST terms—sits autopoiesis. The signs of this adjustment are the conceptual evolution of legal concepts and processes related to new technological changes and risks, among other things. A close reading of Anglo-American legal history and jurisprudence supports …
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Die Interdependenz formaler und informaler Strukturen im Lichte der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns
… sich der Wahrnehmung entzieht (Fuchs, 1998). Die Autopoiesis der Kommunikation ist auf die Anwesenheit zweier psychischer Systeme bzw. Bewusstseinssysteme angewiesen. Sie ermöglichen überhaupt erst den Raum oder den Phänomenbereich, in dem die Autopoiesis sozialer Systeme möglich ist (Luhmann, …
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Practising-as-inquiry: developing self-as-practitioner
… resource and harvest the ethos, praxis and autopoiesis with which I further develop my capacity to intervene in my own and my clients’ systems. My inquiry considers how I have worked with my data as a bricolage of action research approaches to practising-as-inquiry and their congruence with …
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The human right to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa
… socio-legal studies identifying the phenomena of autopoiesis, contingency, power and the limits of steering affecting human rights, law and politics.
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A critical systems thinking approach for the planning of information technology in the information society
… a combination between the systems theories of Autopoiesis and boundary critique, the strategic view is presented. It opens the possibility of including different groups of people and their concerns, as well as debating the consequences of addressing some of these concerns in action. Concerns …
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Organizational persistence and change: A case study of a community college
… to gauge organizational commitment; using autopoiesis and resource dependency theories to explain persistence and change; and investigating the relationship between organizational core values, financial behavior, and policy- and decision-making.</p>
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Arquitectura Híbrida para Sistemas Cognitivos Artificiales Con Comportamiento Emergente, Adaptativo y Auto-organizado
… de la biología evolutiva y del desarrollo: la autopoiesis, la epigénesis, la ontogénesis, y la filogénesis, a partir de los cuales emergen las diversas estructuras cognitivas de la arquitectura. En el nivel epigenético se define una capa cognitiva controlada por dos clases de máquinas …
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Design for a mind with many bodies : cybernetic micro-interventions in the cryosphere
… a higher degree of adaptability and autopoiesis could be attained within the realm of interventions in natural ecosystems. The approach attempts to highlight the importance of a reactive quality in systems designed to monitor, mediate, and activate the evolving needs of an …
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What makes constitutions legitimate? A legal analysis of constitutions and legitimacy: The example of Fiji.
… People's Charter. The innovative methodology of autopoiesis is used to draft the framework and principles of a justice-defined Fijian Constitution for the future.
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… theory of political subjectivity as a process of autopoiesis, understood both as a historically contingent yet critical form of reflexivity and as practices of protest, and precarity as a condition marked by persistent vulnerability to state violence made possible under a legally mandated state of …
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A dual constitutive communication-based model for managerial practice diffusion
… position in constituting such a system through autopoiesis (self-creation).Through comparing the above diffusion “mechanisms” suggested by different theories, it is found that some understandings for diffusion are shared in common. For example, a practice has to be legitimised in order to be …
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MINDFUL INQUIRY - A DEWEYAN ASSESSMENT OF MINDFULNESS AND EDUCATION
<p>Mindfulness-based interventions are becoming an increasingly popular means for helpingstudents deal with the multidimensional challenges they face in contemporary educational settings. While potentially helpful, an uncritical employment of mindfulness in education can paradoxically function to …
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Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school
Abstract Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school This thesis examines a qualitative case study of whole school change based on the perceived experiences of members of a Staff Drive Team and a Student Drive Team in …
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The acoustic ecology of the first-person shooter
This thesis contributes to the field of Game Studies by presenting the hypothesis that the player(s) and soundscape(s) in the first-person shooter (FPS) game, and the relationships between them, may be construed as an acoustic ecology. It explores the idea that the single-player FPS game acoustic …
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The same but better: understanding ceramic variation in the Hebridean Neolithic
Over 22,000 sherds of pottery were recovered during the excavation of the small islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill in North Uist in the late 1980s. Analysis of the assemblage has demonstrated that all of the main vessel forms and decorative motifs recognised at the site were already in place when settlement …
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Semiose des Rituals : eine Kritik ritualtheoretischer Begriffsbildung
… thematisiert die Konzepte der Mimesis und Autopoiesis ritueller Praxis, die im praxistheoretischen Ansatz von Gunter Gebauer und Christoph Wulf eingeführt worden sind, und erweitert diese unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Reflexivität. Die vierte Einheit thematisiert das ritualtheoretische …
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