id
	13311
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13311
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	The Place of Complexity
Creator
	Thrift, Nigel
Date
	1999
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This article is an attempt to understand the increasing profile of complexity theory as a geography of dissemination. In the first part I suggest that complexity theory, itself a rhetorical hybrid, takes on new meanings as it circulates in and through a number of actor-networks and, specifically, global science, global business and global New Age. As complexity theory circulates in these networks, so it encounters new conditions, which generate new hybrid theoretical forms. In the second part of the article, I consider how complexity theory might be interpreted as the emergence of a new structure of feeling in Euro-American societies, which frames the future as open and full of productivity. The conclusion offers some words of warning.
Is Part Of
	Theory, Culture & Society
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1177/02632769922050610
Issn
	0263-2764
Issue
	3
Pages
	31-69
Volume
	16
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/8ANFBX86/item-list

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