Complexity Science seeks the law of autopoeisis. This paper explores how themes from the Complexity Sciences have entered into Serres' thinking and conditioned his articulation of the natural contract . The paper also attempts to assess how far Serres' own work folds Complexity themes back onto the pre-history of modern science. In particular, my attention will focus on the nature of the shift involved to a more ethological model of complex evolution which characterizes Deleuze's later work, principally the co-authored text, with Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, where an ethology of assemblages, as opposed to one of behaviour, is critically advanced. You can book a place at the workshop via these web pages.
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