Note: Due to the rollout of TU Wien’s new publication database, the list below may be slightly outdated. Once APIs for the new database have been released, everything will be up to date again.

2017

• The rationale for complexity thinking and emergentist systemism / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Human in complexity", Universitetska Kniga Kiev, Kiev, 2017, ISBN: 978-966-680-816-8, 229 - 237
• Creating common good: The Global Sustainable Information Society as the Good Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing", M. Archer (ed.); Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-49468-5, 277 - 296
• The future information society: social and technological problems / W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin / in series "World Scientific Series in Information Studies", series editor: M. Burgin; World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2017, ISBN: 9789813108967, 520 pages
• Information studies and the quest for transdisciplinarity: unity through diversity / W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin / in series "World Scientific Series in Information Studies", series editor: M. Burgin; World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2017, ISBN: 9789813108998, 548 pages
• Information in physics and beyond / W. Hofkirchner / in series "The European Physical Journal Special Topics", series editor: K. Becker et al.; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2017, ISSN: 1951-6355
• The rationale for complexity thinking and emergentist systemism / W. Hofkirchner / Philosophy of education (invited), 20 (2017), 1; 43 - 51
• Imagined futures gone astray. An ontological analysis / W. Hofkirchner / Proceedings, 1 (2017), 3; # - ?
• Information for a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "The future information society", W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin (ed.); World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2017, 11 - 33
• World netizenship or barbarism / W. Hofkirchner / Proceedings, 1 (2017), 3
• Evolutionary systems. A manifesto / W. Hofkirchner et al. / Proceedings, 1 (2017), 3
• Transdisciplinarity needs systemism / W. Hofkirchner / Systems, 5 (2017), 15
• Workshop: Transhumanism - the proper guide to a posthuman condition or a dangerous idea? / W. Hofkirchner et al. / Proceedings, 1 (2017), 3
• Workshop: Digital netizens at the crossroads of sharing and privatising / W. Hofkirchner et al. / Proceedings, 1 (2017), 3
• Introduction: Sociology of Information Processes and the Development of Society / W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin / in: "The future information society", W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin (ed.); World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2017, 1 - 7
• Introduction: Omnipresence of Information as the Incentive for Transdisciplinarity / W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin / in: "Information studies and the quest for transdisciplinarity", W. Hofkirchner, M. Burgin (ed.); World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2017, 1 - 7
• Information from physics to social science / W. Hofkirchner / European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 226 (2017), 2; 157 - 159

2016

• The Commons and Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "the Enigma of Europe", W. Baier, E. Canepa, E. Himmelstoss (ed.); issued by: transform; Merlin Press, 2016, (invited), ISBN: 978-0-85036-721-8, 173 - 182
• Ethics from Systems: Origin, Development and Current State of Normativity / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Morphogenesis and the Crisis of Normativity", M. Archer (ed.); Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-28438-5, 279 - 295
• Relationality in Social Systems. Social Relations in the Focus of Social Theory / W. Hofkirchner / in: ""Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer", Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, Hannover, 18.-23. Juli 2016", 5; W. Li (ed.); Georg Olms Verlag, 2016, 235 - 243

2015

• Information for a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: IS4IS Summit Vienna 2015: The Information Society at the Crossroads - Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, Wien (invited); 2015-06-03 - 2015-06-07
• "Mechanisms" at Work in the Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order", M. Archer (ed.); Springer, Cham, 2015, 95 - 112
• Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "IDIMT 2015. Information Technology and Society, Interaction and Interdependence", G. Chroust (ed.); Trauner Verlag, Linz, 2015, (invited), 281 - 288

2014

• Civilisation at the crossroads / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research EMCSR 2014, Vienna (invited); 2014-04-22 - 2014-04-25
• Information as relation and structure / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Understanding Matter, palermo (invited); 2014-04-09 - 2014-04-12
• Why freedom of information is not enough / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: Freedom of Information under Pressure, wien (invited); 2014-02-28 - 2014-03-01
• 'Mechanisms' at work in information society / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Social Generative Mechanisms: From Competition to Opportunity?, oxford (invited); 2014-01-06 - 2014-01-09; in: "Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order", M. Archer (ed.); springer, switzerland (2015)
• On the Validity of Describing `Morphogenic Society´ as a System and Justifiability of Thinking About It as a Social Formation / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Late Modernity: Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society", M. Archer (ed.); Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-03265-8, 119 - 141
• Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Critique, Social Media and the Information Society", C. Fuchs, M. Sandoval (ed.); Routledge, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-415-84185-6, 66 - 75
• Epistemology and the Study of Social Information Within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary Approach", F. Ibekwe-SanJuan, T. Dousa (ed.); Springer, 2014, ISBN: 978-94-007-6972-4, 51 - 70
• Civilisation at the Crossroads, Response and Responsibility of the Systems Sciences / W. Hofkirchner / Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, wien, 2014, 805 pages
• "Global Sustainable Information Society" - Vision for the Future / W. Hofkirchner / Academics (invited), 188 (2014), 1; 254 - 258
• The commons from a critical social systems perspective / W. Hofkirchner / Recerca (invited), New insights into relational goods (2014), 14; 73 - 92

2013

• Global Consciousness - the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: ECCO Seminar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (invited); 2013-11-29
• `Global Sustainable Information Society´ - Vision for the Future / W. Hofkirchner, R. Jahn / Talk: International Conference on Philosophy of Information, Xi´an, China (invited); 2013-10-18 - 2013-10-21
• Idiotism and the Logic of the Third / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: State-of-Peace Conference, Peace Castle, Schlaining (invited); 2013-10-01 - 2013-10-04; in: "Stae of Peace Conference 2013", M. Lakitsch (ed.); (2014), ISBN: 978-3-643-90493-5; 55 - 76
• Foundations of hope for a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Curso verano: Redes Sociales 2013 (De la communicación a la solidaridad), Universidad de León (invited); 2013-09-13
• Some perspective problems of Information Science. Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: Perspectives of information in Global Education as a new approach in the 21st century, FIS/ISIS 2013, Moscow University of Humanities (invited); 2013-05-21 - 2013-05-24
• History and prospects of development of the international cooperation in the field of studying of fundamental problems of Information Science. Remarks / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: Perspectives of information in Global Education as a new approach in the 21st century, FIS/ISIS 2013, Moscow University of Humanities (invited); 2013-05-21 - 2013-05-24
• Facing Complexity - General System Theory / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: Curso de extensión: Pensamiento sistémico abierto, Universidad de León (invited); 2013-05-15
• Transdisciplinarity by complexity thinking / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: Curso de formacion: La Universidad frente a un mundo complejo, Estrategias científicas y docentes para confrontar la complejidad, Universidad de León (invited); 2013-05-15
• Vernadsky´s concept of the Noosphere within the perspective of systems theory / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Vom Mineral zur Noosphäre, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (invited); 2013-03-15
• Emergent information. The quest for a Unified Theory / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Simulation komplexer Systeme, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wien (invited); 2013-01-24
• The validity of describing `Morphogenic society´ as a system and justifiability of thinking about it as a social formation / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: `Morphogenic Society´ as a potential new social formation?, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (invited); 2013-01-16 - 2013-01-18
• Emergent information / W. Hofkirchner / World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2013, ISBN: 978-981-4313-48-3; 292 pages
• Self-Organisation as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Social Morphogenesis", M. Archer (ed.); Springer, 2013, 125 - 143
• Emergent information - when a difference makes a difference / W. Hofkirchner / tripleC, 11 (2013), 1; 6 - 12

2012

• Empathy / W. Hofkirchner / in: "A more developed sign", D. Favareau, P. Cobley, K. Kull (ed.); Tartu University Press, 2012, (invited), 119 - 122
• emcsr book of abstracts / W. Hofkirchner, S. Blachfellner, R. Bichler / Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Wien, 2012, ISSN: 2227-7803; 435 pages
• Sustainability and self-organisation / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Information ethics", T. Nishigaki, T. Takenouchi (ed.); V2 Solution, Nagoya City, 2012, 190 - 217

2011

• General System Theory and Complex Systems Philosophy / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Systems in Biology, Universität Wien (invited); 2011-10-27 - 2011-10-28
• Emergent Information. When a Difference makes a Difference... / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: the difference that makes a difference, milton keynes (invited); 2011-09-07 - 2011-09-09
• "Kritische Systemtheorie" - eine contradictio in adjecto? / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Widerworte. Politik Philosophie Kommunikation", innsbruck university press, 2011, (invited), 29 - 39
• Communities of Action and the Message Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Messages and Messengers, Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication", Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Uni Taschenbücher, 2011, 255 - 270
• Does Computing Embrace Self-Organisation? Ontological Problems of Information-Processing / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Information and Computation, Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation", World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2011, 185 - 202
• General System Theory / W. Hofkirchner, M. Schafranek / in: "Philosophy of Complex Systems, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10", North-Holland, 2011, 177 - 194
• Information and Communication Technologies for a Good Society / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework", A. Mirijamdotter, D. Haftor (ed.); Information Science Reference, 2011, 434 - 443
• Emergent information. Some system-theoretical considerations about an integrative information concept / W. Hofkirchner / International Journal Information Theory and Applications, 18 (2011), 50 - 55

2010

• Teaching transdisciplinarity: the case of ICTs and Society / W. Hofkirchner / Keynote Lecture: General Assembly, International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, Chengdu, China (invited); 2010-10-25 - 2010-10-27; in: "Proceedings of 2010 General Assembly of International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences", Sichuan University, (2010), 26 - 29
• twenty questions About a Unified Theory of Information. A Short Exploration into Information from a Complex Systems View / W. Hofkirchner / emergent publications, Litchfield Park, 2010, ISBN: 9780984216475; 156 pages
• Die Methode: Die Natur der Natur / E. Morin, W. Hofkirchner, R. Zimmermann / turia + kant, Wien, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-85132-538-6; 496 pages
• How to Design the Infosphere: the Fourth Revolution, the Management of the Life Cycle of Information, and Information Ethics as a Macroethics. / W. Hofkirchner / Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 23 (2010), 1-2; 177 - 192

2003

• Knowledge and Self-Organization / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Heinz von Foerster Konferenz "Knowledge - Organization - Society", Wien (invited); 2003-11-13 - 2003-11-15
• Evolutionäre Systemtheorie. Die wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung unserer Zeit / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: Dynamik-Komplexität-menschliche Systeme, AKH Wien (invited); 2003-10-22
• Informational Universe. A Praxeo-Onto-Epistemological Approach / W. Hofkirchner, C. Fuchs, B. Klauninger / Talk: Human Approaches to the Universe - An Interdisciplinary Perpsective, Helsinki (invited); 2003-09-26 - 2003-09-27
• The Architecture of the Information Society / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Talk: The 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS): Agoras of the Global Village, Iraklion; 2003-07-07 - 2003-07-11; in: "Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS): Agoras of the Global Village", J Wilby, J Allen (ed.); (2003), ISBN: 0-9740735-1-2; #
• Homo creator in einem schöpferischen Universum. "Selbstorganisation" als Grundlage neuer Konzepte von "Natur" und "Gesellschaft". / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Natur als Politikum", issued by: Maurer, M., Höll, O.; RLI-Verlag, Wien, 2003, 371 - 392
• Zhyttia u sviti samoorganizatsyii: zmagannia styliv myslennia ta svitobachen' (Living in a World of Self-Organisation: Ways of Thinking and World Views Contested - ukrain.) / W. Hofkirchner / Practychna Filosofiya (invited), 7 (2003), 1; 39 - 48
• Towards a Unified Theory of Information / W. Hofkirchner, G. Stockinger / 404nOtF0und, 1(3) (2003), 24; #

2002

• Aspects of a Unified Theory of Information: Agenda - Framework - Applications / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Wirtschaftsuniversität Prag, Prag (invited); 2002-11-14
• On the Ontology of Evolutionary Systems / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Human Strategies in Complexity 1, Yalta; 2002-07-01 - 2002-07-08
• The differentia specifica of Biosemiosis in the Perspective of a Theory of Evolutionary Systems / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2, Tartu; 2002-06-14 - 2002-06-18
• Unified Theory of Information and Self-Organisation / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: INTAS+, Kassel (invited); 2002-05-18 - 2002-05-20
• Conceptualizations of Information and Ways of Thinking / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Electronic Conference on Foundations of Information Science: The Nature of Information: Conceptions, Misconceptions, and Paradoxes, -; 2002-05-02 - 2002-05-06
• Selbstorganisation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Formalem und Nichtformalem / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: Kultur der Visualisierung, Semmering (invited); 2002-04-28 - 2002-04-30
• Global Brain sucht Global Mind - Von Verletzlichkeit, Verantwortlichkeit und Vergatterung / W. Hofkirchner / Talk: STOP, Stadtschlaining (invited); 2002-01-31 - 2002-02-03; in: "Ground Zero, Friedenspolitik nach den Terroranschlägen auf die USA", agenda, Münster (2002), 183 - 201
• Studienbuch Informatik und Gesellschaft / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Libri BOD, Norderstedt, 2002, ISBN: 3-8330-0252-2; 444 pages
• Projekt Eine Welt: Kognition - Kommunikation - Kooperation. Versuch über die Selbstorganisation der Informationsgesellschaft / W. Hofkirchner / Lit Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, London, 2002, 340 pages
• Ein einheitlicher Informationsbegriff für eine einheitliche Informationswissenschaft / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / in: "Stufen zur Informationsgesellschaft. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski", issued by: Floyd C., Fuchs C., Hofkirchner W.; Peter Lang, Wien, 2002, ISBN: 3-631-37642-1, 241 - 281
• Internet and "Glocalization" / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Internet in Malaysia and Vietnam", issued by: Becker J.; Deutsches Überseeinstitut, Hamburg, 2002, 165 - 175
• Das Paradigma der Selbstorganisation - Fragen der Übertragbarkeit von Sichtweisen aus den Naturwissenschaften auf die Sozialwissenschaften / W. Hofkirchner / in: "Gesellschaft denken, Eine erkenntnistheoretische Standortbestimmung der Sozialwissenschaften", issued by: Bauer, L., Hamberger, K.; Springer, 2002, 113 - 124
• Stufen zur Informationsgesellschaft. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski / C. Floyd, C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Peter Lang, Wien, 2002, ISBN: 3-631-37642-1; 434 pages
• Postfordistische Globalisiserung / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Z, 50 (2002), 152 - 165
• Globalisierung - ein allgemeiner Prozess der Menschheitsgeschichte / C. Fuchs, W. Hofkirchner / Z, 49 (2002), 89 - 102
• The Status of Biosemiotics / W. Hofkirchner / SEED, 2 (2002), 3

Note: Due to the rollout of TU Wien’s new publication database, the list below may be slightly outdated. Once APIs for the new database have been released, everything will be up to date again.

• WAR 2.0 oder ICTs4PEACE? Konfliktkommunikation im Social Web / Doctoral Thesis by Sophie Huber / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Hofkirchner, E. Klaus; Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies and Society, 2009; oral examination: 2012-03-05
• Systemic innovations enabled by information and communication technology in education. Towards an integrative, multi-level research framework for exploring the complex shaping and integration of ICT-based innovations exemplified by the case of e-portfolios / Doctoral Thesis by V. Hornung-Prähauser / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Hofkirchner, T. Hascher; Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies and Society, 2011; oral examination: 2012-03-05
• Ein computationales Modell für die Allgemeine Systemtheorie / Doctoral Thesis by M. Schliefnig / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Hofkirchner, P. Fleissner; E187, 2010; oral examination: 2010-01-20
• Auswirkungen moderner Technologien auf die kulturelle Entwicklung der iranischen Gesellschaft  / Doctoral Thesis by S. Ekssir-Monfared  / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Hofkirchner, K. Wernhart; 187, 2005; oral examination: 2005-04-19
• Aspekte der evolutionären Systemtheorie in ökonomischen Krisentheorien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung techniksoziologischer Bezüge / Doctoral Thesis by C. Fuchs / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Hofkirchner; Institut für Gestlatungs- und Wirkungsforschung, 2002

• Member
  2010 / International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences / Austria
• Mitglied
  2006 / Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Germany

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