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Przeciwzłożoność. Polityki prostoty
Countercomplexity. Politics of Simplicity

Author(s): Marek Krajewski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: complexity; dynamic complex systems; emergence; politics of simplicity; collective action; postmodernity

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the article is to show the consequences of the fact that people experience knowingly operating within the dynamic complex systems. One of the most important results of this specific human properties is an attempt to reduce the complexity of such systems. I recognize such activities as politics of simplicity and show how they are implemented within the “social turn”, mathematical modeling, in contemporary forms of democracy and economic activity, design, etc. I also try to show why the politics of simplicity increase the complexity of the modern world.

  • Issue Year: 211/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish