DELEUZIAN SENSE OF AN 'OPEN SYSTEM' TOWARDS POSTCIVIL SOCIETY

摘要

The thesis describes and demonstrates the author's proposal of a new system approach, called 'rhizomatic systems approach' that is developed on the basis of the poststructuralist work in general, Deleuze and Foucault's work in particular. The overall purpose of 'Systems Science in the Service of Humanity' can be said that we encourage the development and applications of 'systems thinking' to 'solutions' of specific practical contexts. It is to help to focus research practice and promote a great deal of efforts towards the service of humanity. However, we should ask ourselves what kind of 'systems thinking' is useful to promote the investigation of 'practice' in which gives way towards postcivil society. As the author will argue throughout his thesis, rhizomatic systems approach to 'problematization' supports an unconscious transcendental reality which inheres or subsists between the two extremes of a priori subjects (or idealism) and realism. Rhizomatic systems approach is to foster the investigation of the 'movement image' of the world in terms of appreciation of a series of events. To do so, our research is to shift from focus on 'problem solving' in the real world situation to focus on 'problematization' of the ongoing participatory process of social appreciation in the particular and local contexts. The utility of our research leads to acknowledge an "open system" in Deleuzian sense, which is a new type of adaptive whole being proposed in order to produce a continual renewal a mode of existence in social process of learning from theory to practice.