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, Steps to an Ecology of Mind [2000: 269]
Currents
Presentation of current research at the formlabor in Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin University. See the commented slides of the presentation here: Über die formale Rekonstruktion von Funktionssystemen
Translation into German of Harrison C. White‘s seminal paper “Interfaces” that appeared back in 1982 in the Journal “Connections”. To be published in the forthcoming issue of the “Revue für postheroisches Management” in April. To appear in the same issue: “Die Recodierung der Soziologie. Zu Harrison C. Whites ‘Interfaces’” [Recoding Sociology. On Harrison C. White‘s ‘Interfaces’].
Paper Presentation “Organisieren ist Re-formieren. Die Medialisierung der Organisation” [Organizing is Re-Forming. The Medialization of Organization] at the Conference “Organisationen im Chaos?” of the DGS Section “Organizational Sociology”, University of Potsdam, Germany, 14-15 October 2011.
Presentation “Management: Situations, Breakdowns, Micromoments” during the Summer School “Next Society” at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, 30 June until 3 July 2011.
Invited discussant at the international conference “Mathematics of Form” at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, 30 May until 1 June 2011.
Paper Presentation “Epistemology of Network” at the jointly organized spring-time session of the two DGS sections “Sociological Network Research” and “Sociological Theory” in Aachen, 20-21 May 2011.
Presentation of a Paper entitled “Social Divisions and Identities out of Boundary Events: Gaming, Organizing, and Conflicting” at the BSA Annual Conference 2011 in London, 6-9 April.
“Soziale Formen. Fortführung eines soziologischen Programms” [Social Forms. Continuing a Sociological Program], published at transcript Verlag.
