Dynamic Relationality Theory of Creative Transformation
Grounding Machinic Ecosystems in Life Experiences
- 1st Edition - November 13, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Kerimcan Ozcan, Venkat Ramaswamy
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 5 9 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 6 0 - 5
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Request a sales quoteDynamic Relationality Theory of Creative Transformation: Grounding Machinic Ecosystems in Life Experiences introduces a visionary approach to understanding the evolving relationship between technology and human experiences. It delves into the transformative potential of Machinic Generalized Intelligence (MGI), where AI and human intelligence converge harmoniously, creating a new paradigm of interactive, machinic life experiences. This book challenges the traditional tech-centric view, advocating for a life and experience-first perspective. It presents the Dynamic Relationality Theory (DRT), a novel conceptual framework that redefines our interaction with technology, emphasizing cocreative, emergent experiences over mere digital platformization.
Through an interdisciplinary approach combining philosophical insights and social theories with practical applications, this book navigates the complexities of digitalized life ecosystems, employing concepts and tools from assemblage theory, category theory, sheaf theory, differential topology, and gauge theory. For readers grappling with the complexities of AI and its societal implications, this book offers clarity and direction. It provides a robust theoretical framework to understand the changing landscape of human–technology interaction. Furthermore, it integrates philosophical insights and ethical considerations into the discussion of AI and technology, providing a well-rounded perspective that aids in ethical decision-making and responsible innovation. It also delves into practical applications and future implications of AI, aiding readers in applying these concepts in real-world scenarios.
By moving beyond a purely technological focus, this book equips readers with the insights needed to navigate the ethical, philosophical, and practical challenges posed by the integration of AI into daily life. A crucial resource for academics, professionals, and policymakers, this book serves as a guide to making informed decisions and fostering responsible innovation in the age of AI.
Through an interdisciplinary approach combining philosophical insights and social theories with practical applications, this book navigates the complexities of digitalized life ecosystems, employing concepts and tools from assemblage theory, category theory, sheaf theory, differential topology, and gauge theory. For readers grappling with the complexities of AI and its societal implications, this book offers clarity and direction. It provides a robust theoretical framework to understand the changing landscape of human–technology interaction. Furthermore, it integrates philosophical insights and ethical considerations into the discussion of AI and technology, providing a well-rounded perspective that aids in ethical decision-making and responsible innovation. It also delves into practical applications and future implications of AI, aiding readers in applying these concepts in real-world scenarios.
By moving beyond a purely technological focus, this book equips readers with the insights needed to navigate the ethical, philosophical, and practical challenges posed by the integration of AI into daily life. A crucial resource for academics, professionals, and policymakers, this book serves as a guide to making informed decisions and fostering responsible innovation in the age of AI.
- Provides a novel and holistic approach—comprehensive framework of Dynamic Relationality Theory (DRT)—to understanding the interplay between AI and human experiences, helping readers grasp the complexities of this coevolution
- Uses an interdisciplinary approach which integrates philosophical, sociological, and technological perspectives, offering a multifaceted view that is crucial for a deep understanding of the subject
- Focuses on ethical and societal implications, guiding readers through the moral complexities of technology integration
Academics and researchers in technology, artificial intelligence, sociology, and philosophy, including professors and researchers specializing in AI, human-computer interaction, and digital transformation, Postgraduate and doctoral students engaged in advanced studies of AI, machine learning, cognitive science, and interdisciplinary fields that intersect technology and human experiences, and thinkers and theorists in the realms of philosophy of technology and digital ethics, exploring the implications of AI and human-machine co-evolution
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I. Relational dynamics
- Chapter 1. Theorizing relational dynamics of creative transformation
- Virtual and actual dimensions of a relational universe
- Actualization of the real and the possible
- From virtual realities to actual possibilities
- DRT and the four domains of the creative plane of immanence
- Virtual and actual dynamics: Deterritorialization and discursivity
- Differentiation as double articulation of strata via assemblages
- Interpreting functorial domains through gauge theory
- Seeing health ecosystems through DRT
- Transformative potential of DRT in theory and practice
- Chapter 2. Grounding machinic ecosystems in life-experiences
- Counter-actualization as the source of novelty and becoming
- Interpenetration of actualization and counter-actualization
- Possibilizing the virtual as experience ecosystems
- Realizing the virtual as machinic life
- Machinic life-experience ecosystems
- Looking ahead
- Part II. Dynamic relationality theory
- Chapter 3. Dynamic relationalities in an assemblage
- Dynamic relationality #1: Within assemblages
- Healthcare assemblages as microcosms of relationality
- Mathematical underpinnings of healthcare relational dynamics
- States of desire in healthcare
- Transformations of desire in healthcare
- Illustrating the dynamics of desire in healthcare
- Healthcare ecosystems: Assemblages at scale
- Origins and implications in healthcare
- Categories and open sets as smooth manifolds and submanifolds
- Vector fields animating the dynamics over smooth manifolds
- Deriving the plane of consistency and territories of an assemblage
- Chapter 4. Dynamic relationalities on strata
- Dynamic relationality #2: Territorialization of strata between assemblages
- Analyzing stratification across machinic and collective assemblages
- Dynamic relationality #3: Lines of flight between assemblages across stacked strata
- Analyzing functorial transformations across stacked strata
- Transversality
- Chapter 5. Dynamic relationalities across (stacked) strata
- Enriching the creative-experiencer with generative artificial intelligence
- Dynamic relationality #4: Becoming through lines of flight
- Dynamic relationality #5: Reterritorialization
- Enriching the experience-verse with machinic generalized intelligence
- Lines of flight as structural transformation
- Becoming as continuous transformation of identity
- Dynamics of lines of flight and becoming
- Chapter 6. Dynamic relationalities of relational dynamics
- Dynamic relationality #6: Differential transformation
- Differential forms to measure the flow of natural transformations
- Toward a new monadology of dynamic relationalities
- Homotopies
- Becoming of singularity in AGI as differential transformation
- Part III. Organizations and creative transformation
- Chapter 7. Creative transformation along a molar/molecular stack
- Dynamic relationality #7: Molar/molecular lines of segmentation between strata
- Relating global transformations to local transformations
- Transformations along stacked strata: Sheaf morphisms
- Chapter 8. Diagrammatic logic of organizations in ecosystems
- Category Theoretical interpretation of organizations and ecosystems
- Enrollment and agencing in organizations and ecosystems
- Dynamic relationality #8: Diagrammatics
- Limit/colimit object of a system of categories
- Limit construction (most general object)
- Colimit construction (least constrained object)
- Limits and colimits as universal properties
- Higher-order categories to represent categories and functors
- Organizations as convergence of diagrams and limit/colimit objects
- Case: Diagrammatic logic of organizations in healthcare ecosystems
- Chapter 9. Organizational morphology and development
- A category theoretical typology of organizational morphology
- Structured corporations as limit object focused organizations with stable functor sets
- Agenced corporations as limit object focused organizations with variable functor sets
- Structuring collectives as colimit object focused organizations with stable functor sets
- Agencing collectives as colimit object focused organizations with variable functor sets
- Case: Morphology and morphogenesis in healthcare
- Chapter 10. Architectural transformation in an ecosystem
- Extending sheaves to stacks for multilayered global to local analysis
- Dynamic relationality #9: Strategic architecturing as transformations of diagrams
- Adjustment of diagrams or limit/colimit objects
- Use of functors and natural transformations
- Use of 2-categories or higher categories
- Designing life-experience ecosystems via pragmatic semiotics of diagrams
- Case: Healthcare application of strategic architecturing as transformation of diagrams
- Part IV. Complex transformative emergence and evolution
- Chapter 11. Emergent transformation in a machinic life-experience ecosystem
- Immanence within a machinic life-experience ecosystem
- Monadic structure of differentiation into four domains
- Case: Healthcare system and COVID-19
- Differentiation of ecosystem sectors via double articulation
- Case: Healthcare system and COVID-19 (Continued)
- Chapter 12. Evolutionary transformation in a machinic life-experience ecosystem
- Grounding social-behavioral phenomena with gauge theory
- From global immanence to well-being, wealth, empowerment, and welfare
- MLXE evolution as differentiation from virtual realities to actual possibilities
- Dynamic relationality #10: Immanence of emergence and evolution
- From analysis and modeling to strategy development
- Epilogue
- Tracing DRT's genealogical topography
- DRT as a platform of thought and practice for creative transformation
- Epistemological status of DRT as a scientific theory
- Extending DRT for planetary sustainability in the anthropocene
- Interconnectedness of food, health, education, and mobility in the anthropocene
- DRT for impact: Well-being, wealth, empowerment, and welfare in MLXEs
- Appendix—Category theory notational reference table
- Categories
- Functors
- Appendix—Healthcare case: Details of category theory analysis
- Category C₃ (“Stakeholder”)
- Category C₄ (“Ecosystem”)
- Category C₅ (“Creative-Experiencer”)
- Category C₆ (“Experience-verse”)
- Appendix—Applying gauge theory to social–behavioral phenomena
- Gauge theory of desiring machines
- Gauge theory of deterritorialization and reterritorialization
- Unified Gauge theory of desire and territory
- Unified Gauge theory of identity and structure
- Unified Gauge theory of differentiation
- Unified Gauge theory of signification and transversality
- Unified Gauge theory of organization
- Unified Gauge theory of folding and ecosophy
- References
- Glossary of terms
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 13, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 260
- No. of pages (eBook): 386
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443301599
- eBook ISBN: 9780443301605
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Kerimcan Ozcan
Dr. Kerimcan Ozcan is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the School of Business and Global Innovation, Marywood University, USA. His expertise encompasses co-creation, interactive platforms, digitalization, strategy, and various facets of marketing such as branding, customer service, and industrial/B2B marketing. His current work emphasizes the fusion of human-AI interactions and their transformative impact on organizational and societal systems. This research highlights how the dynamic relationalities of machinic ecosystems and life-experiences coalesce into strategic organizational transformations, helping organizations navigate their evolving ecosystems. Forthcoming contributions extend the current work into real-world applications, with projects that bridge theoretical advancements with hands-on strategies for organizational growth, including strategic engagement with AI, co-innovation platforms, and ecosystem-based value creation. Dr. Ozcan’s prior scholarly work includes The Co-Creation Paradigm co-authored with Dr. Ramaswamy, published by Stanford University Press, along with contributions to Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Harvard Business Review. Previously, he taught at several other universities (including University of Michigan and International University of Japan) and held engineering roles in various industries. His research has garnered support from entities such as Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, and the University of Michigan Tauber Manufacturing Institute. Dr. Ozcan received a Ph.D. in Marketing and an M.A. in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), an M.S. in Management from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Marketing, School of Business and Global Innovation, Marywood University, USAVR
Venkat Ramaswamy
Dr. Venkat Ramaswamy serves as Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, contributing to innovation, strategy, marketing, branding, IT, operations, and organizational behavior. His scholarly work and practical implementation of ideas have earned him global recognition. In 2004, Ramaswamy, alongside C.K. Prahalad, introduced the concept of Co-Creation in The Future of Competition (Harvard Business School Press) offering a new perspective on value generation through experiential environments and collaborative practices. This concept was further explored in influential articles in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, focusing on interactive value creation and innovation from an individual experience standpoint. From 2005 to 2010, Ramaswamy’s research addressed the impact of digital and social media, technological convergence, and IT-enabled services on organizational engagement platforms, emphasizing the importance of using lived experiences to enhance interactions, as discussed in "Building the Co-creative Enterprise" (Harvard Business Review). In 2010, The Power of Co-Creation (Free Press) co-authored with F. Gouillart, examined co-creation platforms across various industry sectors, highlighting the transition from traditional product offerings to interactive, value-creating platforms. His 2014 book, The Co-Creation Paradigm (Stanford University Press) co-authored with K. Ozcan, advocated for a shift in individual and institutional engagement to foster a collaborative economy and society. Dr. Ramaswamy's ongoing research focuses on systemic transformations through digitalized societal ecosystems, aiming to enhance wellbeing, wealth, and welfare. His mentorship extends globally, guiding enterprises in adopting co-creative practices and building management capabilities. Dr. Ramaswamy holds a Ph.D. in marketing from Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USARead Dynamic Relationality Theory of Creative Transformation on ScienceDirect