The role of information networks in the evolution of social complexity

1. The evolution of societies toward complexity One of the themes most discussed in the social sciences pertains to the sources and evolution of social complexity. Here, we will explore how (...)

 

Exchanging ideas is the stage prior to proposing alternatives

The students who took Saint-Germain Boulevard by storm in May 1968 shouted, “Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!” The first large wave, however, took a year to roll in, and it came to Rome. In (...)

 

Networks, the vital principle

The genetic code of this article: sequence in time: red, black, blue, green (red and blue, text by Rasskin-Gutman) (black and green, text by Ángela D. Buscalioni). The sequence in space, as it (...)

 

The Universal Digital Network

Its extraordinarily advanced approach and content, as well as the structure of his account—a sort of electronic “Hopscotch/Rayuela”—may make “Más allá de Internet: la Red Universal Digital” (Beyond the (...)

 

Cajal and Neural Circuits

A hypothesis on the organisation of the nervous system In the times of Cajal, the prevalent hypothesis on the organisation of the nervous system was the reticular theory, which argued that the (...)

 

Networks in the nanoworld

When we observe the world around us, we perceive that inorganic as well as organic matter, inert materials as well as living beings, are characterised by an ability to self-organise forming (...)

 

Emerging Territories and Reticular Production

The war of dreams Let’s squat the air and drown the Geneva summits into Wifi-clouds! Let’s civilize the sky and occupy the satellites for community media! Let’s flood the fiber networks with (...)

 

Language, genealogy and inheritance. The construction of social networks

In one of its countless branching events, the evolutionary process had certain multicellular eukaryotes turn into animals, and then some primates develop their brains enormously. Evolution made (...)