Tensions and theoretical ruptures in Luhmann's concept of communication

This work offers the results of a theoretical study on the relationship between communicative urgency and anti-humanism established by Niklas Luhmann's general theory of autopoietic self-referential social systems (GTSS). Our contribution proposes a critical interpretation of the role of anti-humanism in the GTSS, inquiring into its tensions with communicative urgency. The article develops three tensions: 1) the integration of psychic processes of meaning in the communicative reduction of complexity; 2) the rupture of isomorphism between desubjectifying communication and excluding all psychic processing of meaning in communication; 3) the dedifferentiation between social selections and psychic operations in communicative synthesis. Adapted from the source document.