2.1 Publications

2.1.1 Edited Volumes

  • Developing Support Technologies. Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance That People Really Want (with Robert Weidner), Springer International. [Publication in September 2018]

2.1.2 Monographs

  • Soziale Formen. Fortführung eines soziologischen Programms, Bielefeld: transcript, 2010. [Social Forms. Continuing a Sociological Program] [Contents and Introduction pdf]
  • Systemdifferenzierung und Systemtypen [Differentiation and Types of Systems], Modul V des Fernstudiengangs “Systemisches Management”, Zentrum für universitäre Weiterbildung an der TU Kaiserslautern, 2006. 2., aktualisierte Auflage 2011 [Contents and Introduction pdf]
  • Soziale Systeme [Social Systems], Modul III des Fernstudiengangs “Systemisches Management”, Zentrum für universitäre Weiterbildung an der TU Kaiserslautern, 2005. 2., aktualisierte Auflage 2011. [Contents and Introduction pdf]
  • Alles nur Dienstleistung? Das sozialpolitische Aufgabenprofil der Arbeitgeberverbände in Gegenwart und Zukunft [Is It Simply Service? The Socio-Political Task Profile of Employers' Associations], Project Report, Arbeitgeberverbände Ruhr/Westfalen (Bochum), Witten, 2005.
  • Organisation als generalisiertes Medium der modernen Gesellschaft [Organization as a Generalized Medium of Modern Society], Diploma Thesis, Wuppertal, 2002. [pdf]

2.1.3 Articles

  • Unterstützung: Ein neuer Rahmen für Entwicklung und Evaluation von Mensch-Technik-Interaktion [Support: A New Frame for Developing and Evaluating Human-Machine Interaction]. In: Kevin Liggieri und Oliver Müller (Hrsg.): Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion. Handbuch zur Geschichte – Kultur – Ethik. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. (vorauss. 2019)
  • Support in Times of Digitization (with Robert Weidner). In: Athanasios Karafillidis, Robert Weidner (eds.), Developing Support Technologies. Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance That People Really Want, Springer international.
  • Distinguishing Support Technologies. A General Scheme and Its Application to Exoskeletons (with Robert Weidner). In: Athanasios Karafillidis, Robert Weidner (eds.), Developing Support Technologies. Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance That People Really Want, Springer international.
  • Introduction: Developing. Support. Technologies (with Robert Weidner). In: Athanasios Karafillidis, Robert Weidner (eds.), Developing Support Technologies. Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance That People Really Want, Springer international.
  • Die Komplexität von Interfaces. Touchscreens, nationale Identitäten und eine Analytik der Grenzziehung [The Complexity of Interfaces. Touchscreens, National Identities, and Boundary Analytics]. In: Berliner Debatte Initial 29(1): 130-146.
  • Grundzüge einer Netzwerktheorie der Organisation [Outline of a Network Theory of Organization] In: Maja Apelt et al. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Organisationssoziologie, Wiesbaden: Springer VS (vorauss. 2019)
  • Die Materie der Kybernetik. Über Kommunikation in organisch-mechanischen Verbindungen [The Matter of Cybernetics. On Communication in Organic-Mechanical Relations], in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization 10 (1): 131-153 (2017). DOI: 10.6094/behemoth.2017.10.1.947. Open Access. Download at Behemoth Homepage
  • Human-Machine Integration as Support Relation: Individual and Task-related Hybrid Systems in Industrial Production and Elderly Care (with A. Argubi-Wollesen, B. Otten, R. Weidner). In: i-com. Journal of Interactive Media 16 (2), S. 143-152, 2017. doi:10.1515/icom-2017-0019
  • Synchronisierung, Kopplung und Kontrolle in Netzwerken. Zur sozialen Form von Unterstützung und Assistenz [Synchronization, Coupling, and Control. On the Social Form of Support and Assistance], in: Peter Biniok und Eric Lettkemann (Hrsg.), Assistive Gesellschaft, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, S. 27-58. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-13720-5_2
  • Taxonomische Kriterien technischer Unterstützung [Taxonomic Criteria of Technical Support], in: Robert Weidner (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 2nd Transdisciplinary Conference on Technical Support Systems, that People Really Want", Hamburg, 2016, S. 233-247. [pdf]. For all the proceedings of the conference look here.
  • Harrison C. White's „Network Switchings and Bayesian Forks: Reconstructing the Social and Behavioral Sciences“, forthcoming in: Boris Holzer und Christian Stegbauer (Hrsg.), Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS (Winter 2017).
  • Peter Bearman's und Katherine Stovel's „Becoming A Nazi: A model for narrative networks“, forthcoming in: Boris Holzer und Christian Stegbauer (Hrsg.), Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS (Winter 2017).
  • Unmittelbares Handeln und die Sensomotorik der Situation. Francisco J. Varelas "Ethical Know-How" [Immediate Action and the Sensorimotor Function of Situations. Francisco J. Varela's "Ethical Know-How"], in: Dirk Baecker (Hg.), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, 2. Auflage, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016, pp. 223-249. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-20004-0_19
  • Grundlagen einer Theorie und Klassifikation technischer Unterstützung (mit Robert Weidner), [Foundations for a Theory and Classification of Technical Support], in: Robert Weidner, Tobias Redlich, Jens P. Wulfsberg (Hg.), Technische Unterstützungssysteme, Berlin: Springer, 2015, S. 66-89. [pdf]
  • Individual Support in Industrial Production. Outline of a Theory of Support-Systems (with Robert Weidner), Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49), January 5-8, 2016 Grand Hyatt, Kauai. DOI:10.1109/HICSS.2016.77
  • Three General Determinants of Support-Systems (with Robert Weidner), in: Applied Mechanics and Materials 794:555-562, 2015. [pdf]
  • Ontogenesis, or: If You Want to Study Ontology, Do not Use Ontology, in: Constructivist Foundations 10 (2): 214-216, 2015. [pdf] or here (free reg).
  • Autopoiesis and Autonomy in the Space of Meaning, in: Constructivist Foundations 9 (2): 175-177, 2014. [pdf] or here (free reg).
  • Formale Bedingungen von Hybridität und nicht-moderne Beobachter, [Formal Conditions of Hybridity and Nonmodern Observers], in: Thomas Kron (Hg.), Soziale Hybridität – hybride Sozialität, Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2015, S. 17-47. Manuskript in [pdf]
  • Identitäten und Netzwerke. Zur relationalen Modellierung von Sinn,[Identities and Networks. On Relational Models of Meaning], in: Martina Löw (Hg.), Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, CD-Rom, 2014 [pdf]
  • Socializing a Calculus. The Emergence of a Theory of Social Forms and a Sociological Notation. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 20 (3-4): 108-141, 2013 [pdf]
  • Erklärungen in rekursiven Verhältnissen, [Explanations in Recursive Conditions], Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, Heft 2/2013, S. 218-238. [pdf]
  • Die Recodierung der Soziologie. Zu Harrison C. Whites ‘Interfaces’, [Recoding Sociology. On Harrison C. White's ‘Interfaces’], in: Revue für postheroisches Management, H. 10, 2012, S. 46-59. [pdf]
  • Risiken, ihre Organisation und die Technik ihrer Vermeidung,[Risks, their Organization and the Technology of Avoiding Them], in: Revue für postheroisches Management, H. 7, 2010, S. 116-119. [pdf]
  • Grenzen und Relationen, [Boundaries and Relations], in: Jan Fuhse und Sophie Mützel (Hrsg.), Relationale Soziologie. Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2010, S. 69-95. [pdf]
  • Entkopplung und Kopplung. Wie die Netzwerktheorie zur Bestimmung sozialer Grenzen beitragen kann, [Decoupling and Coupling. How Network Theory Might Contribute to Ascertaining Social Boundaries], in: Roger Häußling (Hrsg.), Grenzen von Netzwerken, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2009, S. 105-131. [pdf]
  • Die Hotelgesellschaft, [Hotel Society], in: Studium fundamentale 03/04, Beiblatt, 2003. [pdf]

2.1.4 Columns/Journalism

  • Maren Lehmann, Athanasios Karafillidis, Moritz Klenk (Hg.), Gelegenheiten, [Opportunities], REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society Heft 17/2015.
  • Ungelegenheiten, [Inopportunities], in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society Heft 17/2015: S. 20-22. [pdf]
  • Offline-Welten sind längst online, [Offline-worlds are online by now], in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society Heft 16/2014: S. 8-9. [pdf]
  • Die Form, aus der die Stoffe sind, [The Form That Stuff Is Made Of], in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society, Heft 15/2014, S. 134 (Mai). [pdf]
  • Sie nannten es Rekursivität – und besorgten sich Identitäten, [They Called it Recursivity – and Provided Themselves with Identities], in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society, Heft 14/2013, S.146-147 (November). [pdf]
  • Eine Master-Institution für beharrliche Veränderung, [A Master-Institution for Inertial Change], in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society, Heft 13/2013, S. 94-95. [pdf]
  • Searching Communities, in: REVUE. Magazine for the Next Society, Heft 12/2013, S. 106-107. [pdf]
  • Bilder zu Immobilien, [Paintings to Immovables], in: die tageszeitung nrw, 26./27. Februar 2005, p. 3. [Scan in pdf] [Link]

2.1.5 Translation

All translations from english to german.

  • Harrison C. White, Interfaces, in: Revue für postheroisches Management, Heft 10, 2012, S. 30-45.
  • Stephan Fuchs, Handlung ist System, on Talcott Parsons’ “The Social System”, in: Dirk Baecker (ed.), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2005, pp. 51-53.
  • Ranulph Glanville, Lernen ist Interaktion, on Gordon Pask’s “An Approach to Cybernetics”, in: Dirk Baecker (ed.), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2005, pp. 75-94.
  • Louis Kauffman, Das Prinzip der Unterscheidung, on George Spencer Brown’s “Laws of Form”, in: Dirk Baecker (ed.), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2005, pp. 173-190.
  • Bernard Scott, Selbstbeobachtung, on Ranulph Glanville’s “Objekte”, in: Dirk Baecker (ed.), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2005, pp. 325-346.

2.1.6 Interviews

  • “The Shining, not the Moon”. Andrew Abbott in Conversation with Athanasios Karafillidis, in: Soziopolis, April 2017. [Soziopolis]
  • Ist zusammen alles schöner?, Studiogast zum Thema Vereine beim [WDR 5], 20. Februar 2014.
  • Organizing Failures. Interview with Nils Brunsson, in: Revue für postheroisches Management, Issue 1/07, pp. 37-43. [pdf]
  • Fit für die Zukunft, in: randstad korrespondent 36 (2), March 2006, p. 2-3. [pdf]

2.2 Presentations

  • Interface-Complexity (in German)
    • Conference “Komplexe Grenzen: Dimensionen – Dynamiken – Technologien”, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, 3.-4. November 2016.
  • The Identities of Relational Sociology (in German)
    • Adhoc-Gruppe „Konvergenzen und Forschungsperspektiven der relationalen Soziologie“, DGS-Congress 2016 in Bamberg „Geschlossene Gesellschaften“, 38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 26.-30. September 2016, University of Bamberg.
  • Cybernetics and New Materialism. The Coupling of Organic and Mechanical Matter (in German)
    • Workshop „Die Soziologie und die Neuen Materialismen“ at the LMU in Munich, 28-30 January 2016.
  • Boundary-Nets and Border Crossers (in German)
    • Autumn School "Grenzgänger in Theorie und Praxis" at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, 08 October 2015. Program
  • Ko-Operation von Mensch und Technik – Formen und Entwicklungen [Co-Operation of Humans and Technology. Forms and Developments] (with Robert Weidner)
    • Keynote at the WGP-Congress at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, 08 September 2015.
  • Three General Determinants of Support-Systems (with Robert Weidner)
    • Paper presented at the WGP-Congress at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, 08 September 2015.
  • The Materialization of Social Forms (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the 37. Congress of the DGS “Routinen der Krise, Krise der Routinen” in Trier, 06-10 October 2014. Abstract [pdf]
  • Creativity by Routines in Bureaucracies and New Organizational Forms (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the 37. Congress of the DGS “Routinen der Krise, Krise der Routinen” in Trier, 06-10 October 2014. Abstract [pdf]
  • Designing Organizational Boundaries (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the colloquium of the Institute of Sociology, RWTH Aachen University, 02 July 2014.
  • The Meaning of Networks (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the LMU in Munich “Aktuelle Debatten der Kultursoziologie”, 12/13 July 2013.
  • Society and Its Environments (in German)
    • Paper presented at the 1. Münchner Theoriegespräche in Munich, 24 January 2013.
  • The Halved Environment. Organizational Design as a Sociological Concept. (in German)
    • Ideas presented at the Bielefelder Kolloquium zur Organisationstheorie in Bielefeld, 17 December 2012.
  • On Modeling Forms of Meaning. Greek National Identity During Occupation and Civil War, 1941-1949. (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the 36. Congress of the DGS “Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt” in Bochum, 05 October 2012. Slides in [pdf]
  • On the Formal Reconstruction of Functional Subsystems as Medialized Codes of Societal Reproduction and the Respective Explanation of their Structural Genesis via Transjunctional Operations (in German)
    • Presentation at the formlabor, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, 07 March 2012. Commented Slides in [pdf]
  • Organizing is Re-Forming. The Medialization of Organization (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the Conference “Organisationen im Chaos?” of the DGS-Section “Organizational Sociology” in Potsdam, 14-15 October 2011.
  • Management: Situations, Breakdowns, Micromoments (in German)
    • Presentation at the Summer Camp “Next Society” in Friedrichshafen, 30 June-03 July 2011.
  • Epistemology of Network (in German)
    • Paper Presentation at the jointly organized spring-time session of the two DGS sections “Sociological Network Research” and “Sociological Theory” in Aachen, 20-21 May 2011.
  • Social Divisions and Identities out of Boundary Events: Playing, Organizing, and Conflicting
    • Presentation at the BSA Annual Conference 2011 in London, 6-9 April.
  • The Autopoiesis of Society: Some Theoretical Considerations and Methodological Implications for the Study of Organizations
    • Keynote at the 6th HSSS National & International Conference “Systemic Approaches in Social Structures”, 23-26 June, 2010 in Mitilini, Lesvos Island, Greece.
  • Networks and Boundaries
    • International Symposium on the Relational Sociology of Harrison C. White, Berlin, September 25th, 2008.
  • How Network Theory Can Contribute to Ascertaining Social Boundaries (in German)
    • Spring-time session of the AG Network Research of the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS): Boundaries of Networks, ZKM-Vortragssaal, Karlsruhe, May 15th, 2008.
  • Management in Situations (in German)
    • Sociological colloquium (Dirk Baecker), Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, October 25th, 2007.
  • Communication and Causality: Black Boxes, Non-trivial Machines and Observers (in German)
    • Presentation/Workshop at the Congress “Impuls und Wirkung”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, June 1st, 2007.
  • Planning and Communication (in German)
    • Ten-year anniversary Belz GmbH, Zürich, September 15th, 2005.
  • Systems Theory of Organization (in German)
    • Seminar “Organisationstheorien und -konzeptionen” (Gert Schäfer and Björn Thies), Institut für politische Wissenschaft, University of Hannover, July 6th, 2004.
  • Medientheoretische Ergänzungen zu einer Gesellschaftstheorie der Organisation
    • Organisationssoziologisches Kolloquium (Thomas Kurtz, Veronika Tacke, Hendrik Vollmer, Christof Wehrsig), University of Bielefeld, January 22nd, 2003.

2.3 Working Papers

  • Networks and Boundaries [pdf]
  • f (Rahmung): Die Technik der Ausstellung [f (framing): The Technology of Exhibition], [pdf]
  • The Form of Management Situations: A Brief Proposal [pdf]
  • Planung und Kommunikation [Planning and Communication], [pdf]
  • Falling Asleep and Waking Up: Social Determination of Sleep [pdf]