I've only read the introduction this far, but this book (359 page PDF), recommended to me by one of the authors after my post yesterday, has definitely caught my interest (and this, may I add as an aside, is precisely why I share my thoughts and finds with people). The introduction sets up the contrast between systems and networks nicely, which is the main point of interest for me. It argues for the replacement of a systems paradigm with a network paradigm on the grounds that the network paradigm can explain itself at the level of meaning in a way the systems cannot. Now I have my own story of what happens here (based on the concepts of emergence and recognition) that I believe is distinct from Actor-Network theory, which is what the book focuses on, so I will be interested to see how the book approaches this.
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