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January 28, 2015

The complexity of social systems: Could hegemony emerge from the micropolitics of the individual?

As well as an introductory chapter, outlining the background to a reassessment of the two great writers, and describing the contribution of each chapter in the book, David also included his own chapter, in the...

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July 15, 2014

Time of Our Lives: Understanding irreversible complex user experiences

David presented a paper at HCC11 in Turku, Finland, in July 2014, entitled The Time of our Lives: Understanding Irreversible Complex User Experiences. The proceedings are published by Springer. Abstract: The science of complexity has been...

Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems

By David Kreps

"This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems."

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Tagged: complexity

The complexity of social systems: Could hegemony emerge from the micropolitics of the individual?

Time of Our Lives: Understanding irreversible complex user experiences

Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems

By David Kreps

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