suggestions for col49 and theory of systems

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, back to what we do second best, at least ...

--- Philipp Heine <heineph at gmx.de> wrote:

> hey guys.
> 
> this is my first mail to the pynchon-list.
> I'm a student of german literature and comparative
> literature currently writing about "the crying of
> lot 49" interpreted by niklas luhmanns "theory of
> social systems". I now there has been some talk
> about luhmanns theory here some years ago (1999 ?)
> and I hope you can give me some suggestions.
> I wanted to explicate something like different
> systems of reality and paranoia as a way to loosen
> the difference of system and environment. but I'm
> not really sure if this will fit.
> 
> thanks for help
> 
> philipp

Oh, Kai ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9903&msg=36309

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=38367

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9912&msg=43002

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50343

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50684

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56966

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65934

Those seemed some of the more, uh, Luhmannly posts of
Kai's, at any rate.  I took up a bit of NL myself a
while back, at, indeed, Kai's agitation, but I'd be
hard pressed to suggest anything off the top of my
head.  I'm sure y'all have found these, but ...

http://www.libfl.ru/Luhmann/

http://www.luhmann-online.de/

http://www.n4bz.org/gst/gst12.htm

http://www.theorycards.org.uk/card32.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann

http://www.systems-thinking.de/luhmann.html

http://www.soziale-systeme.de/pages/texte.htm

http://www.itas.fzk.de/deu/Itaslit/best02a.pdf

http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/montreal.htm

And, of course, there's even an L-List ...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sociocybernetics/

Okay, I printed up a bit of this, maybe I'll at least
get an inkling of an idea here ...

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