Sociology and Complexity Science Blog

In my Individual and Society course I typically spend the first couple weeks (amongst other things) grounding our understanding of human...

 I recently ran across an excellent online historical overview of the last 50 years of information technology that I think is very well done...

The Center for Complexity in Health announces today the launching of their new white-paper outlet, the Proceedings of the Complex...

Back in the spring and summer of 2010 I posted a series of discussions about the need for complexity scientists to do a better job of comp...

Back in the spring and summer of 2010 I posted a series of discussions about the need for complexity scientists to do a better job of compre...

In a previous post-- click here to see --I discussed Pinker's new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined in te...

This is a painting i recently completed called Two Douche-bags; Or, Toast This!   It is a comedic homage to jerks everywhere who, by defin...

I am a huge fan of the work of Charles and Ray Eames and have been waiting for their complexity science, postmodern equivalent.  Anyway,...

The evolutionary psychologist, Steven Pinker has published a new book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined . I came ...

I recently came across this website via one of the Santa Fe listserves to which I belong. It is called: Notes from Two Scientific Psycholog...

Just got back from the The Association for Medical Education in Europe Conference . AMEE "is a worldwide organisation with members in ...

Check it out! i am in a commercial for our campus, Kent State University at Ashtabula. Very Cool! And for those in Northeastern Ohio, con...

This coming weekend i am going to the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems in Boston. My colleagues Jürgen and Christina Klüve...

This coming weekend i am going to the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems in Boston. My colleagues Jürgen and Christina Klüve...

TRICYCLE by Brian Castellani For local 'clevelandites,' come see one of my latest assemblages (a sneak peek of part of it shown abov...

Hi Folks! Cowboy Bri here! Sorry it has been a while since i last posted anything worth reading or viewing, but complexity ideas, as you kno...

CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR MARGARET SERIES T-SHIRTS My wife, Maggie--who is a member of the art and science factory team--is known by friends and...

I recently ran across some very interesting art work by James Moss, who describes himself as an "Artist/Educator - integrating science ...

This post continues my discussion about the challenges associated with how one goes about testing the validity and utility of the particular...

This post continues my discussion about (1) the need for researchers to be clear about the definition of complexity they use and (2) to make...

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently working on a community health study with my colleague, Galen Buckwalter, wherein we are...

Over the past year I have been making an argument for the emergence of a movement i call, for the lack of a better term, complexity art . ...

My brother and I are at the International Sociological Association, presenting our paper on the SACS Toolkit and its application to the stud...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . This is the fifth post on this top...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . This is the fourth post on this to...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . I my last two posts I've argue...

This post extends a conversation I began on 19 May 2010, titled testing the validity of complex systems . My basic argument is that we simpl...

I could be wrong here, and I am not entirely sure about the argument I am making, but it seems to me that much of the work being done in com...

Okay, so a few of my personal art critics asked me to push the painting you see above a bit further. To see the older version, click here ...

Michelangelo and Da Vinci's work are a major source of inspiration for my artistic and scientific work in complexity. Their Renaissance...

It has been a while since my last post. My research colleagues and I have been busy creating a new research center for studying health ...

Balcony View of the Westside Market, Cleveland Ohio, 1971 & 2010 This photomontage highlights how Cleveland’s past is part of our pr...

My colleague, Fred Hafferty, and I have been working for the past five years to articulate a grounded theoretical frame for understanding me...

Here is another assemblage photomontage. The photos are by my nephew, Kevin Rusnak, and by me.

The following photo is part of my new series of work. In what follows, I provide a series of powerpoint slides that explain what is going on...