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1Impossible Synchronization. Temporal Coordination in the Risk SocietyZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 5 (2): 161-173. 2014.
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20What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of UncertaintyTheory, Culture and Society 36 (4): 3-26. 2019.
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Ein zweiwertiger nicht-selbständiger KalkülIn Dirk Baecker (ed.), Kalkül der Form, Suhrkamp. 1993.
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Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden : gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen der ModeIn Thomas Rathmann (ed.), Ereignis: Konzeptionen eines Begriffs in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2003.
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15Author’s Response: Opacity and Complexity of Learning Black BoxesConstructivist Foundations 16 (3): 377-380. 2021.: Non-transparent machine learning algorithms can be described as non-trivial machines that do not have to be understood, but controlled as communication partners. From the perspective of …
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37Systems Theory and Algorithmic Futures: Interview with Elena EspositoConstructivist Foundations 16 (3): 356-361. 2021.: By introducing us into core concepts of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, Elena Esposito shows their relevance for contemporary social sciences and the study of unsettled times…
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20From pool to profile: Social consequences of algorithmic prediction in insuranceBig Data and Society 7 (2). 2020.The use of algorithmic prediction in insurance is regarded as the beginning of a new era, because it promises to personalise insurance policies and premiums on the basis of individual behaviour and level of risk. The core idea is that the price of the policy would no longer refer to the calculated uncertainty of a pool of policyholders, with the consequence that everyone would have to pay only for her real exposure to risk. For insurance, however, uncertainty is not only a problem – shared uncer…Read more
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18Algorithmic memory and the right to be forgotten on the webBig Data and Society 4 (1). 2017.The debate on the right to be forgotten on Google involves the relationship between human information processing and digital processing by algorithms. The specificity of digital memory is not so much its often discussed inability to forget. What distinguishes digital memory is, instead, its ability to process information without understanding. Algorithms only work with data without remembering or forgetting. Merely calculating, algorithms manage to produce significant results not because they op…Read more
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6Der Spiegel der Massenmedien und die generalisierte KommunikationIn Christoph Hubig (ed.), Cognitio Humana - Dynamik des Wissens Und der Werte: Xvii. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie Leipzig 23.–27. September 1996, Kongreßband: Vorträge Und Kolloquien, De Gruyter. pp. 323-338. 1997.
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16Critique without crisis: Systems theory as a critical sociologyThesis Eleven 143 (1): 18-27. 2017.This paper proposes an extended idea of critique, bypassing the paradox of a critique of critique. It reconstructs the semantics of critique from ancient commentary to autonomous interpretation, identifying the blindness of critical theory in the claim to detect crises and to indicate how to overcome them. The critique of critique is achieved not by rejecting critique but by moving to second-order observation. In this understanding, critique does not refuse what is normal but observes it as impr…Read more
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8Öffnung für das Vorläufige. Die Mode im 17. und 18. JahrhundertIn Jörn Steigerwald & Daniel Fulda (eds.), Um 1700: Die Formierung der Europäischen Aufklärung: Zwischen Öffnung Und Neuerlicher Schließung, De Gruyter. pp. 73-82. 2016.
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75. Doppelte KontingenzIn Detlef Horster (ed.), Niklas Luhmann: Soziale Systeme, De Gruyter. pp. 49-60. 2013.
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31Impossible Synchronization. Temporal Coordination in the Risk SocietyZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 2014 (5): 333-345. 2014.Our society is often understood and discussed as a society of non-contemporaneity —an issue that undoubtedly corresponds to a widespread and disturbing feeling in today's society. Both at personal level and in communicative contexts one often has the impression of an interlacement and a contrast among different rhythms, temporal horizons, durations and terms, and the result is usually a sort of pressure and a sense of inadequacy. It seems to me, however, that the difficulties we have to face don…Read more
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3Das Problem Der Reflexivität In Den Medien Und In Der TheorieIn Cornelia Vismann & Albert Koschorke (eds.), Widerstände der Systemtheorie: Kulturtheoretische Analyse der Werke von Luhmann, Akademie Verlag. pp. 113-120. 1999.
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Dal modello alla moda. Media e forme dell’imitazione [From model to fashion. Mediums and forms of imitation]la Società Degli Individui 20 79-94. 2004.A partire dall’ipotesi di una trasformazione dell’idea di modello nell’età moderna, il saggio esamina le forme dell’imitazione: dall’imitazione dei grandi autori del passato al privilegio della creatività e della produzione del nuovo. Questi cambiamenti vengono correlati con le corrispondenti trasformazioni della struttura della società e della sua semantica, in particolare con la preferenza per il nuovo tipica dei mass media. Ci si chiede quale ruolo possa ancora avere l’imitazione, e si parla …Read more
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GLU. Glossar zu Niklas Luhmanns Theorie sozialer SystemeTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 (2): 389-390. 1999.
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2Ontologien der Moderne (edited book)Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften. 2013.Das Erleben der Welt kann nur unter der Voraussetzung ihrer Tatsächlichkeit erfolgen. Dazu muss ihre Konstruiertheit hinter ontischen Verweisen verschwinden. Erfolgt die erste Zurichtung der Welt kontingent, ist sie doch nicht beliebig. Die Konstruktion hat notwendige Folgen als Tatsachen. Darauf setzen gesellschaftliche Debatten in Politik, Wirtschaft oder Massenmedien, die Eingang auch in die Wissenschaft finden. Gelingt die Erinnerung an die anfängliche Konstruktion nicht, erfolgt Reflexion n…Read more
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28Digital prophecies and web intelligenceIn Mireille Hildebrandt & Katja de Vries (eds.), Privacy, due process and the computational turn, Routledge. pp. 121. 2013.
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12The Present Use of the Future: Management and Production of Risk on Financial MarketsIn Johanna Jauernig & Christoph Lütge (eds.), Business Ethics and Risk Management, Springer. pp. 17--26. 2014.
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51The Hypertrophy of Simultaneity in Telematic CommunicationThesis Eleven 51 (1): 17-36. 1997.The paper deals with the changes in the sense of synchronicity and simultaneity connected with the transformations in the structure of society. It examines and criticizes the modern concept of absolute chronology, understood as an objective temporal reference common to all observers. This notion is compared with the relative and flexible (but neither objective nor generalizable) forms of synchronization of different societies. The paper discusses finally the hypothesis that contemporary society …Read more
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