Conceived Limits for Manipulated Reproduction
Publisher: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Lund University, Sweden
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lund, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paper
Number of pages: 12
Description: This article is focusing on the notion that the design of a civilization is perceivable to its citizens only to the degree that they have the cognitive instruments to judge it properly. With the purpose to clarify how two Swedish female adolescents comprehend the information structure of a utopian society, their written responses to Huxley’s Brave New World are studied. The method used for the analysis is Perspective Text Analysis (PTA/Vertex), which is founded on the Agent-action-Objective (AaO) axiom. Since it has the capacity to get at the morphogenetic development of a text, the expected outcome is structural stability. The kinetic and thermodynamic functions are producing spaces, which provide for the development of energy landscapes. Concerning the constraining impact of Huxley’s utopian society on emergent state attractors, it is shown that the termini of the attractors produced by the participants, support information structures in coherence with the critical factors of Huxley’s challenging world. In addition, the termini point at individually perceived spheres of civil characteristics.
Table of contents: title: The import of civilization; title: Method; title: Results (4 graphs); title: Discussion; title: References