Athanasios Karafillidis, Dr. phil.
Sociologist, RWTH Aachen University


“... our studies could be inspired by a more ancient, but today less honored, motive: a curiosity about the world of which we are part. The rewards of such work are not power but beauty.” Gregory Bateson [2000: 269]



Currents

The book “Soziale Formen. Fortführung eines soziologischen Programms” [Social Forms. Continuing a Sociological Program] will be published this September at transcript Verlag.


Keynote Speaker at the 6th HSSS National & International Conference “Systemic Approaches in Social Structures”, 23-26 June, 2010 in Mitilini, Lesvos Island, Greece. Subject: “The Autopoiesis of Society: Some Theoretical Considerations and Methodological Implications for the Study of Organizations”.


Article “Grenzen und Relationen” [Boundaries and Relations] has just been published in the volume “Relationale Soziologie: Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung&rdquo [Relational Sociology: The Cultural Turn in Network Research] edited by Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel. Also have a look at www.relational-sociology.de