autopoiesis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτόποιος (autópoios, “self-produced”), coined c. 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.[1]
Noun
autopoiesis (uncountable)
- (systems theory) Self-creation; self-organization.
- 2009, Mark Fisher, quoting Slavoj Žižek, chapter 4, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, pages 27-28:
- Being smart means being dynamic and nomadic, and against centralized bureaucracy; believing in dialogue and cooperation as against central authority; in flexibility as against routine; culture and knowledge as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and autopoiesis as against fixed hierarchy.
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Related terms
- allopoiesis
- practopoiesis
- heteropoiesis
Translations
self-creation
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Further reading
References
- Humberto Maturana; Francisco Varela (1973) Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living (in English)
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