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Social Systems and Autopoiesis

On Niklas Luhmann’s Theory

Jan 20, 2024
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Social Systems and Autopoiesis
Social Systems and Autopoiesis
Jan 20, 2024
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While the Wind Unspools Our Names

They promised us wings, not ladders —   nor cities that sag like carcasses in rain:  Wir haben das Paradies vermessen —   the blueprints…

6d ago
6d ago

The Iron Tang of Wars

We count the dead by their teeth:

May 2
May 2

Dream Merchants

You, there —

Mar 25
Mar 25

Alzheimer’s

We have repackaged the gods as self-help franchises:  We chew the Bible, swallow the wine —   our tongues dyed red.

Mar 18
Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s
Mar 18

Europa

Non est negotium? the harlots of Babel barter her veins for silvered chains: Homo economicus.

Mar 16
Mar 16

Non “Dulce” Non “Et Decor”

The trenches stank of brotherhood: rot and iron, piss-stained letters to mothers who’d never scrub the stench from their dreams.

Mar 15
Mar 15

Stone, Silence

We eat the apples daily now —  core, stem, cyanide —  and call it Eden.

Mar 15
Mar 15

Clockwork Conscripts

I.

Mar 14
Mar 14

CNN Empire

War pixels bloom like poppies in Flanders.

Mar 11
Mar 11
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I write about political science, philosophy, and sociology. Sometimes, I also write poems.

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