Lexicon of Arguments

 

Baraldi I 59
Form/medium/Luhmann: medium is characterized through loose coupling of its elements - e.g. sand.
Form: tight coupling of the elements - E.g. footprint in the sand.
Cf. >Media/Talcott Parsons, >Media/Habermas.
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AU Cass 10
Medium/form/Luhmann: viable systems must be loosely coupled.
Sentences: are forms in the medium of language (= vocabulary).
>Sentence.
Words: form in the medium of sound or visual designs.
>Words.
Medium/Luhmann:
1. A medium can only be reproduced through morphogenesis - (if you never form sentences, you would forget the words).
2. The medium is more stable than the morphogenesis. Objects can disappear.
In the medium we always see something new. - E.g. power as a medium is used to arrange something specific (form).
>Power/Talcott Parsons, >System/Luhmann, >Systems theory.