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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in...

Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in...

Wie kaum eine andere soziologische Theorie der vergangenen Jahrzehnte bietet die Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns kulturwissenschaftliche Anschlussmoglichkeiten. Wer sich allerdings mehr vornimmt, als Luhmannsche Ansatze blo 'anzuwenden', muss die Architektur der Theorie mitsamt ihren Vorentscheidungen, Ausblendungen und inharenten Zwangen uberprufen. Das fuhrt unmittelbar zu der Schlusselfrage nach dem Verhaltnis zwischen 'System' und 'Kultur'. Gibt es ein 'System der Kultur'? Und gibt es umgekehrt eine 'Kultur des Systems', eine kulturelle Codierung systematischer Vorgange, die fur deren...