Around a historical reconstruction of complexity: organicism, power system and new technological sciences

Abstract

The paper explores, including methodological question for the social sciences, the historical process of emergence of new theories and the concept of complexity. Explicitly, is situated in an area of intersection between cognitive systems themselves of scientific logic and particular socio-historical context. It describes the hypothesis, the emergence of an operational episteme that accompanies the emergence of new technological sciences under organicist ideology in the United States in mid-century. A process that would have allowed a new feasibility of the regimes of power to affect the early modern episteme. To do this, budgets are presented some studies on science, society and technology, and the work of Gregory Bateson as a case that illustrates this proposed emergency metanarrative. Finally, draws some conclusions about the question guides it.