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Complexity

Lancaster University.

The term ‘complexity’ has recently sprung into the physical and social sciences, humanities and semi-popular writings. ‘Complexity’ practices are constituted as something of a self-organizing global network that is spreading ‘complexity’ notions around the globe. There is a new ‘structure of feeling’ that complexity approaches both signify and enhance. Such an emergent structure of feeling involves a greater sense of contingent openness to people, corporations and societies, of the unpredictability of outcomes in time–space, of a charity towards objects and nature, of the diverse and non-linear changes in relationships, households and persons, and of the sheer increase in the hyper-complexity of products, technologies and socialities.

Key Words: emergence • global • hybrid • network • non-linear • self-organization • space-time • structure

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, 111-115 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406062818


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