ABSTRACT

Part I was necessarily dominated by the re-appropriation of the structures of consciousness for complexity theory. The humanist paradigm is obsessed with epistemology and it is likely that its critique must begin from an epistemological revision. Part II has so far considered the limits of linear expectation in the face of the complexity of social phenomena. We now turn to the emergence of collective structures. The association of post-modernism, poststructuralism and ostensibly ‘progressive’ political pluralism will guarantee something of a question here. However, we are not re-inventing constraints, fixed roles, the hegemony of the normal, rather we are entirely centred on eco-auto-organisation.