Interactive social cognition theory and approaches of developmental psychology widely
agree that central aspects of emotional and social experience arise in the unfolding of …

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke's project of rethinking
narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects …

Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the
meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned …

This article aims to sketch a new integrative perspective on what I call change-ability. I
define change-ability as skilled ways of coordinating with a rapidly changing world. Many …

Modern organic metaphors for society have run parallel to the very idea of sociology as a
science, starting with Comte and Spencer's use of the term “social organism”(Comte, 1830 …

Using a pedagogic experiment at an architectural school in Tallinn as an empirical and
conceptual starting point, this article explores the significance of autopoiesis in …

This paper is an investigation into the possibility of institutional agency and proceeds via the
elaboration of two, nested claims. First, if genuine agency is attributable to certain social …

The enactive approach characterizes life and cognition as sense-making. The standard
description of sense-making entails the co-emergence of an agent's self and a meaningful …

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic
account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them …

The" network" has become a dominant metaphor in contemporary thought. By analyzing its
history, this essay argues that this metaphor has evolved through re-projection, and that …