ABSTRACT

In binary coding, modern society possesses a highly specific form for heightening, normalizing and contextualizing risky behavior. The progressive differentiation of binary coded function systems eliminates decision criteria external to the particular system. With the progressive differentiation of society and the coding of language, this regularity permits the development of a societal history determined by whether language is used to accept or reject the meanings proposed. If within the societal system binary coded function systems are further differentiated, this process repeats itself in frequently divergent and accelerated form. The option for the positive value of the code, for legality, truth, property, for institutionalized power positions, engenders a capacity for connectability and thus for history. Codes are abstract and universally applicable distinctions. The code is the form with which the system distinguishes itself from the environment and organizes its own operative closure. Coded systems are emancipated systems.