Kolja Möller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kolja Möller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kolja |
| FAMILY NAME | Möller |
| SIGNATURE | MØLLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5384-0714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We, the Replicated: Constitutional Revolutions After Digital Twinning and Cyber-Physical Social Systems
This article examines how digitalization challenges the foundations of constitutionalism and, in particular, the notion of constitutional revolutions. It contends that Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS), whose advent is already under way in industry, infrastructure, city management, mobility, and housing, have set a new logic in motion that relies on the replication of the social world through the so-called ‘digital twinning’. Drawing on societ…
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity
This article challenges the widely held view that a blunt politicization - understood as the application of political norms and procedures to all spheres of society - is the prime starting point for achieving social transformation. Therefore, it reconstructs intellectual reasoning about the limits of such politicization which is ultimately used for conceiving of transformative politics within a more sophisticated matrix. Initially, this article d…
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics
Drawing on Arnold Schönberg’s seminal opera “Moses and Aron”, the comment focuses on the role of holistic politics in Andrew Arato’s and Jean L. Cohen’s “Populism and Civil Society”. It argues that their anti-populist stance is too quick in dismissing a politics which is driven by representing and re-constituting the whole of the social order. Against this backdrop, a rejuvenation of the political left may not consist in a rejection of holism as …
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism
This article outlines a critical systems theory approach to the study of populism by arguing that populism is an avenue of contestation which assumes a distinct role and function in the existing constitution of the political system. Most notably, it is characterised by the re-entry of a popular sovereignty dimension within regular political procedures. By taking up a critical systems theory perspective, it becomes possible to more precisely disti…
The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material constitution, but it tests its theoretical and practica…
From Jacobin flaws to transformative populism: Left populism and the legacy of European social democracy
In the established landscape of research in the social sciences, populism is seen as a type of politics that chiefly revolves around the distinction between the "people" and the "elite".1 Within this, different forms of populism can be distinguished—ranging from right-wing and authoritarian to liberal-centrist and religious varieties. In the camp of the political left, populism is often cast as essentially a democratic endeavor. Drawing on a conc…
Kritische Theorie und Systemtheorie – eine Einleitung
Strukturelle Gewalt und funktionale Differenzierung. Anschlüsse an Luhmann, Benjamin und Adorno
Der Artikel geht dem Verhältnis von Gewalt, sozialen Formen und funktionaler Differenzierung nach. Die These ist dabei, dass die „strukturelle Gewalt“ der funktionalen Differenzierung, wie sie in jüngeren Arbeiten der Kritischen Systemtheorie angenommen wird, als dauerhaftes Zusammenspiel der „verletzenden“ Gewalt anonymer Kommunikation, der „polizeilichen“ Gewalt sozialer Formen sowie der „identifizierenden“ Gewalt eines verallgemeinernden Denks…
Systemtheorie und Gesellschaftskritik: Perspektiven der Kritischen Systemtheorie
Die Verbindung von Kritischer Theorie und Systemtheorie ist ein zentrales Thema aktueller sozialwissenschaftlicher Kontroversen. Die Anwendungsgebiete sind mittlerweile vielfältig: Soziologie, Organisationsforschung, Philosophie und Rechtswissenschaften sind nur einige der Disziplinen, in denen an einer Kritischen Systemtheorie gearbeitet wird. Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die Diskussionslandschaft und fragt: Muss Gesellschaftskritik heute …
Formwandel des Konstitutionalismus: Zum Verhältnis von Postdemokratie und Verfassungsbildung jenseits des Staates
This article argues that the passage to world society proliferates a structural transformation of constitutionalism. It is argued that its postdemocratic character is mainly rooted in a process where substantial policy objectives (most notably free-trade, investment protection and austerity programs) are constitutionalized on a higher-ranking level. While the first part of the article elaborates this diagnosis by combining systems-theoretical and…
Crítica do direito e teoria dos sistemas
O artigo centra-se em abordagens da teoria crítica do sistema em relação ao direito e à sociedade; mostra como elas modificam a estrutura da teoria ortodoxa dos sistemas e discute a forma de crítica resultante. O argumento principal é de que a guinada luhmanniana à esquerda baseia-se em uma forma aporética da crítica que já foi predominante na crítica do direito da primeira geração da Escola de Frankfurt, notavelmente na obra de Franz L. Neumann,…
From Jacobin flaws to transformative populism: Left populism and the legacy of European social democracy
In the established landscape of research in the social sciences, populism is seen as a type of politics that chiefly revolves around the distinction between the "people" and the "elite".1 Within this, different forms of populism can be distinguished—ranging from right-wing and authoritarian to liberal-centrist and religious varieties. In the camp of the political left, populism is often cast as essentially a democratic endeavor. Drawing on a conc…
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity
This article challenges the widely held view that a blunt politicization - understood as the application of political norms and procedures to all spheres of society - is the prime starting point for achieving social transformation. Therefore, it reconstructs intellectual reasoning about the limits of such politicization which is ultimately used for conceiving of transformative politics within a more sophisticated matrix. Initially, this article d…
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism
This article outlines a critical systems theory approach to the study of populism by arguing that populism is an avenue of contestation which assumes a distinct role and function in the existing constitution of the political system. Most notably, it is characterised by the re-entry of a popular sovereignty dimension within regular political procedures. By taking up a critical systems theory perspective, it becomes possible to more precisely disti…
Formwandel des Konstitutionalismus: Zum Verhältnis von Postdemokratie und Verfassungsbildung jenseits des Staates
This article argues that the passage to world society proliferates a structural transformation of constitutionalism. It is argued that its postdemocratic character is mainly rooted in a process where substantial policy objectives (most notably free-trade, investment protection and austerity programs) are constitutionalized on a higher-ranking level. While the first part of the article elaborates this diagnosis by combining systems-theoretical and…
Crítica do direito e teoria dos sistemas
O artigo centra-se em abordagens da teoria crítica do sistema em relação ao direito e à sociedade; mostra como elas modificam a estrutura da teoria ortodoxa dos sistemas e discute a forma de crítica resultante. O argumento principal é de que a guinada luhmanniana à esquerda baseia-se em uma forma aporética da crítica que já foi predominante na crítica do direito da primeira geração da Escola de Frankfurt, notavelmente na obra de Franz L. Neumann,…
Kritische Theorie und Systemtheorie – eine Einleitung
Strukturelle Gewalt und funktionale Differenzierung. Anschlüsse an Luhmann, Benjamin und Adorno
Der Artikel geht dem Verhältnis von Gewalt, sozialen Formen und funktionaler Differenzierung nach. Die These ist dabei, dass die „strukturelle Gewalt“ der funktionalen Differenzierung, wie sie in jüngeren Arbeiten der Kritischen Systemtheorie angenommen wird, als dauerhaftes Zusammenspiel der „verletzenden“ Gewalt anonymer Kommunikation, der „polizeilichen“ Gewalt sozialer Formen sowie der „identifizierenden“ Gewalt eines verallgemeinernden Denks…
Systemtheorie und Gesellschaftskritik: Perspektiven der Kritischen Systemtheorie
Die Verbindung von Kritischer Theorie und Systemtheorie ist ein zentrales Thema aktueller sozialwissenschaftlicher Kontroversen. Die Anwendungsgebiete sind mittlerweile vielfältig: Soziologie, Organisationsforschung, Philosophie und Rechtswissenschaften sind nur einige der Disziplinen, in denen an einer Kritischen Systemtheorie gearbeitet wird. Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die Diskussionslandschaft und fragt: Muss Gesellschaftskritik heute …
The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material constitution, but it tests its theoretical and practica…
From Jacobin flaws to transformative populism: Left populism and the legacy of European social democracy
In the established landscape of research in the social sciences, populism is seen as a type of politics that chiefly revolves around the distinction between the "people" and the "elite".1 Within this, different forms of populism can be distinguished—ranging from right-wing and authoritarian to liberal-centrist and religious varieties. In the camp of the political left, populism is often cast as essentially a democratic endeavor. Drawing on a conc…
Moses and Aron: Reconsidering holistic politics
Drawing on Arnold Schönberg’s seminal opera “Moses and Aron”, the comment focuses on the role of holistic politics in Andrew Arato’s and Jean L. Cohen’s “Populism and Civil Society”. It argues that their anti-populist stance is too quick in dismissing a politics which is driven by representing and re-constituting the whole of the social order. Against this backdrop, a rejuvenation of the political left may not consist in a rejection of holism as …
Populism and the political system: A critical systems theory approach to the study of populism
This article outlines a critical systems theory approach to the study of populism by arguing that populism is an avenue of contestation which assumes a distinct role and function in the existing constitution of the political system. Most notably, it is characterised by the re-entry of a popular sovereignty dimension within regular political procedures. By taking up a critical systems theory perspective, it becomes possible to more precisely disti…
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity
This article challenges the widely held view that a blunt politicization - understood as the application of political norms and procedures to all spheres of society - is the prime starting point for achieving social transformation. Therefore, it reconstructs intellectual reasoning about the limits of such politicization which is ultimately used for conceiving of transformative politics within a more sophisticated matrix. Initially, this article d…
We, the Replicated: Constitutional Revolutions After Digital Twinning and Cyber-Physical Social Systems
This article examines how digitalization challenges the foundations of constitutionalism and, in particular, the notion of constitutional revolutions. It contends that Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS), whose advent is already under way in industry, infrastructure, city management, mobility, and housing, have set a new logic in motion that relies on the replication of the social world through the so-called ‘digital twinning’. Drawing on societ…
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