1st Edition
Self-Destruction of Complex Systems Communicative and Structural Aspects
1. Introduction: Saving "Self-Destruction" From Itself at the Times of COVID and War
Kirill Postoutenko
2. Some Thoughts on Systems and Their Self-Destruction
Wolfgang Banzhaf
3. Studying Communicative Mechanisms of Self-Destruction in Complex Systems: Structures, Modes and Self-Reinforcing Dynamics
Kirill Postoutenko
4. Reproduction and Eventual Dissolution of Some New Guinea Secret Cults in the Light of the Overlapping Generations Model
Kay Junge
5. Entropy Dynamics and Self-Destruction: The Self-Action Model in a Recursive Hierarchy
Yoshiteru Ishida
6. Signalling, Vagueness and Destruction of Meaning in Political Ritual
Xavier Márquez
7. Semantic Inflation and Systemic Breakups in Nature and Society
Xavier Márquez and Kirill Postoutenko
8. Reading John Read’s Ten Days That Shook The World: Tacit Segmentation, Robust Proximal Codes and the Elusive Meaning of 'Counter-Revolution' in Russia (October–November 1917)
Kirill Postoutenko
9. Self-Destruction and the Politics of Derridean Autoimmunity
Eszter Timár
Biography
Kirill Postoutenko is a Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany, and an Adjunct Associate Professor (Docent) of Russian literature and culture at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author and editor of eleven books and ninety-five articles devoted to systems and communication theory, conversation analysis, history of identity, history of media and communication in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and the history of Russian poetry and literary criticism. His most recent books include the edited volumes Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics (together with Darin Stephanov, 2021), Media and Communication in the Soviet Union: General Perspectives (together with Alexey Tikhomirov and Dmitri Zakharine, 2022) and Beyond ‘Hellenes’ and ‘Barbarians’: Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse (2022).
