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SUMMARY:Luhmann Conference 2025 Day 2 - Professor Steffen Roth (University
  of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Professor Steffen Roth
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Programmes. Observed with social systems theory\n\nThem
 e\n\n“… the differentiation of coding and programming makes the reappe
 arance of the third value possible” (Luhmann\, 1989\, p. 41)\n\nIn obser
 ving programmes through the lens of social systems theory (Luhmann\, 2018)
 \, we discover a centre pillar of decided orders and structural feature of
  organised complexity. Programmes guide decisions\, establishing the condi
 tions under which they are deemed good or bad\, right or wrong\, or lucrat
 ive or ruinous. Programmes constitute interfaces between organisations and
  the codes of the function systems (Sales et al.\, 2022\; Roth\, 2023)\, b
 ut may also refer to\, or be understood as\, forms of moral code (Laursen\
 , 2022)\, including coded preferences for particular function systems. As 
 preference resonates with precedence\, programmes are also instrumental in
  creating rankings and other stratified orders. Moreover\, programmes defi
 ne what is on screen or “on line”\, shaping what occupies the centre\,
  and not only the periphery\, of social attention. Programmes also operate
  a diverse set of guiding distinctions to decide who or what is included o
 r excluded the multifaceted segments of modern world society. In this way\
 , programmes are compatible with the source codes of all four basic forms 
 of social differentiation (Roth\, 2025): segmentary\, centre-periphery\, s
 tratified\, and functional. \n\nAt the same time\, the concept of programm
 es as architectures of code is compatible not only with the guiding distin
 ctions of society as observed by social systems theory in the tradition of
  Niklas Luhmann (Roth et al.\, 2025)\, but also with the key technologies 
 and self-descriptions of a digitally transforming society ... Click below 
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