Observing systems: a cybernetic perspective on system/environment relations

Quelle

Vanderstraeten, Raf. 2001. “Observing Systems: A Cybernetic Perspective on System/Environment Relations.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 31 (3). https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5914.00160.

Anmerkungen

"As the punning title already recognizes, the observer of systems can himself be consti- tuted as a system to be observed."

Anm.: Genealogie: Vanderstraeten über von Foersters "Observing Systems" (1984) als Scharnier zur Systemtheorie.

"This second-order observation focuses on the blind spot of an observer. The blind spot can be seen; it can be observed by another observer, or by the same observer at another moment in time (self-observation)."

Anm.: Definition/Vertiefung: präziseste Formulierung des blinden Flecks bei Vanderstraeten, direkt anschlussfähig an Luhmanns Paradoxie-Aufsatz.