Organized Complexity: Posthumanist Remarks on the Technologizing of Intelligence
探讨有组织的复杂性,认为它源于通用功能、正式角色系统和技术交叉处的秩序选择。技术试图将能动性从人类分离并嵌入物质制品,在调节人类互动中日益重要,重新定义了正式组织的社会拓扑。
This article deals with the notion of organized complexity which it identifies with the selection of an order seen as developing at the cross-roads of generic functions, formal role systems and technologies. While functions contribute to organized complexity by defining and constituting specific domains of action-e.g. economic, political, scientific, etc.-technologies and formal role systems serve as important means for the constitution of human interaction along predictable and recurrent lines. Technology differs, however, from formal role systems in that it attempts to detach agency from humans and embody it in material artefacts. Investigating the project of technologizing intelligence at some length, the article claims that technology currently assumes an increasingly important role in the regulation of human interaction. The technical embodiment of perception, cognition and communication patterns redefines the stratified social topology of formal organizations in ways that tend to limit the prescriptive significance which formal role systems have traditionally assumed in modernity.