ENSAIO SOBRE A AÇÃO DOS OBJETOS: DE BRUNO LATOUR A NIKLAS LUHMANN

Global energy studies have produced a flurry of empirical analyses. However, the amount of theoretical reflection on the topic remains comparatively low. This article takes two specific limitations of the literature as its starting point: First, the often-unclear relationship between states and markets in global energy governance, and, second, the concept of energy as a material and external structure. With the aim of providing more nuanced perspectives on these issues, the article turns to the work of Niklas Luhmann and Bruno Latour. Luhmann’s ideas of functional differentiation and structural coupling provide a new look at the interaction of states and markets. Latour’s symmetric anthropology allows us to rethink energy as a hybrid that is in the midst of instead of outside society. While these thinkers provide interesting ways forward for global energy studies, they also appear to be utterly incompatible. Instead of accepting this incompatibility, however, the article uses the tension between Luhmann and Latour’s work as a productive resource for further reflection on global energy governance. It develops a ‘Luhtourian’ approach, arguing that hybrid, issue-specific governance systems can emerge whenever a resistant hybrid instigates the emergence of symbolically generalized governance objects.

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Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann as organization theorists

European Management Journal ◽

10.1016/j.emj.2017.02.005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 145-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Barbara Czarniawska

Keyword(s):

Niklas Luhmann ◽

Bruno Latour

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Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann as Organization Theorists

Management Research ◽

10.4324/9781315194394-5 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 73-86

Author(s):

Barbara Czarniawska

Keyword(s):

Niklas Luhmann ◽

Bruno Latour

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Site, Adapt, Perform: A Practice-as-Research Confrontation with Climate Change

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/drs.2017.0186 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 111-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Melanie Kloetzel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Creative Process ◽

Adaptive Performance ◽

Bruno Latour ◽

Research Methodologies ◽

Arts Festivals ◽

A Site

In recent years, arts festivals around the globe have become enamoured of touring, site-based performance. Such serialised site work is growing in popularity due to its accessibility, its spectacular characteristics, and its adaptive qualities. Employing practice-as-research methodologies to dissect the basis of such site-adaptive performances, the author highlights her discovery of the crumbling foundation of the adaptation discourse by way of her creative process for the performance work Room. Combining findings from the phenomenological explorations of her dancing body as well as from cultural analyses of the climate change debate by Dipesh Chakrabarty (2009), Claire Colebrook (2011, 2012), and Bruno Latour (2014), the author argues that only by fundamentally shifting the direction of the adaptation discourse – on scales from global to the personal – will we be able to build a site-adaptive performance strategy that resists the neoliberal drive towards ecological and economic precarity.

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EKSISTENSI AGAMA DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

KOMUNIKA Jurnal Dakwah dan Komunikasi ◽

10.24090/komunika.v8i1.748 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 41-59

Author(s):

Ahmad Muttaqin

Keyword(s):

Niklas Luhmann ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Religious Background ◽

Religious People ◽

The People ◽

Economic Interaction ◽

Extreme Behavior ◽

Universal Values ◽

Immanuel Wallerstein ◽

Former Ussr

This paper discusses the existence of religion in globalization era.Religious values, which are private, sacral, and transcendent, interact with theglobalization circle, which seems to be contradictory with religion.Globalization is utilitarian as its nature and it results in vanish of local values or cultures. However, none can avoid, neither can religious people. Responds to globalization frequently occur in extreme behavior since some people thinks that globalization will threat their existence in this world. Such responds make the people labeled as fundamentalists or terrorists, and many of them have religious background. Some of religious groups extremely rejecting globalization can be found states of former USSR, Japan, and Iran. Finally, this paper presents the forms and positions of religion suggested by four figures, i.e. Immanuel Wallerstein, John Meyer, Roland Robertson, and Niklas Luhmann. They suggest that the religions will keep their existence if they adopt the values of globalization and make themselves the instrument of communication as well as political and economic interaction of the world’s interaction. Religion should evolve from narrow mindedness to a broader, new, and universal values.

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