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Autotranscendence and Creative Organization: On Self-Creation and Self-Organization

Anders Michelsen

Department of Arts & Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, amichel{at}hum.ku.dk

This article discusses the issue of social and cultural ‘autotranscendence’ - self-production, creativity - in the debates on self-organization. The point of departure is Cornelius Castoriadis’s idea of ‘self-creation’. First, a schisma between mechanical and ontological modeling is indicated and used to introduce the idea of a ‘creative organization’. This is further discussed in relation to Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of social ‘autotranscendence’ by ‘complex methodological individualism’, with particular respect to the incomprehension of the social. Following Johann P. Arnason’s treatment of the question of cultural articulation in Castoriadis, the article argues that the problem of autotranscendence presents a further problem of self-creation discernible in Castoriadis’s notions of phusis/nomos, living being/human, and constraint/magma. The article closes with a consideration of Duncan Watts, Alberto-László Barabási and Bernardo Huberman’s sketch of a network sociology.

Key Words: autotrancendence • constraints • magma • network sociology • self-creation • self-organization

Thesis Eleven, Vol. 88, No. 1, 55-75 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0725513607072457


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