ABSTRACT
He was not particularly interested in making his theory travel far away. He believed that his theory had European roots (Torres Nafarrate and Zermeño 1992: 804). He did not encourage the enactment of international networks of scholars who would expand his theory. ‘He did not form disciples, we became his disciples by ourselves’ (5.85).1 He did not pay attention to specific spaces or places, because he saw his theoretical contribution as universal (Borch 2011), which can be seen as a weakness of his understanding of communication not as a theoretical concept but as an empirical, spatially grounded phenomenon (Borch 2011: 138). Yet his theory has circulated worldwide and his influence in the social science is enormous (Poggi and Sciortino 2011). He is Niklas Luhmann and this chapter is a study of how his work, overcoming these obstacles, travelled to, and still circulates around, Hispanic America.
