Title :
How is Culture and Cultural Development Possible?
Author :
Rauterberg, Matthias
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Design, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol. - TU/e, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
In the context of the second law of thermodynamics it is difficult to explain any kind of process contributing to enhance order. Culture can be seen as such an ordering process, but then we have to explain how this is possible. In this paper I introduce an attempt to overcome and combine these contrary views. Based on the theoretical concept of Swenson´s autocatakinesis I explore the possibilities of developing cultural technology beneficial to society.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; thermodynamics; Swenson autocatakinesis; cultural development; cultural technology; thermodynamics; Context; Cultural differences; Environmental factors; Evolution (biology); Production; Thermodynamics; autocatakinesis; autopoiesis; cultural computing; culture; evolution; second law of thermodynamic;
Conference_Titel :
Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CultureComputing.2013.53
