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Modern Forms of Alienation in Highcomplexity Environments A Systems Approach

Modern Forms of Alienation in Highcomplexity Environments A Systems Approach Alienation will be viewed as a generic term for different kinds of informationprocessing problems in human individuals, viewed as autopoietic, variableboundary systems. Applying general systems theory GST, especially secondorder cybernetics, to alienation theory not only results in a reconceptualisation and increased mutual comparability of existing e.g. Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of alienation, but also presents a rationale for subsuming several typical, modern, informationoverload problems in Western societies under the rubric of alienation theory. Such problems include those of selection and scanning, assimilation, flexibility, overchoice, and selfrealisation or selfactualisation problems which typically occur in complex and fastchanging environments. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Kybernetes Emerald Publishing

Modern Forms of Alienation in Highcomplexity Environments A Systems Approach

Geyer, Felix
Kybernetes , Volume 20 (2): 19 – Feb 1, 1991
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Alienation will be viewed as a generic term for different kinds of informationprocessing problems in human individuals, viewed as autopoietic, variableboundary systems. Applying general systems theory GST, especially secondorder cybernetics, to alienation theory not only results in a reconceptualisation and increased mutual comparability of existing e.g. Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of alienation, but also presents a rationale for subsuming several typical, modern, informationoverload problems in Western societies under the rubric of alienation theory. Such problems include those of selection and scanning, assimilation, flexibility, overchoice, and selfrealisation or selfactualisation problems which typically occur in complex and fastchanging environments.

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Kybernetes – Emerald Publishing

Published: Feb 1, 1991

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