... according to Luhmann, blogs are about the ordering of chaos through the reduction of complexity. This reduction of complexity is effectuated through communication. Some possibilities are realized, others are excluded, and, thanks to communication, the world becomes relatively predictable.

Communications produce communications, and when those can be linked to each other and structured in a relatively predictable way, societies emerge. Or persons. Or Blogs.

Society is made up of communications and nothing but communications. What is not a communication does not belong to society but to its environment. Elephants, fish and chips or cars do not belong to society.

Nor do people, that is: insofar "people" refers to more than just agents of communication. "Real People" belong to the environment. And insofar they belong to the environment, they do not communicate. Only communications communicate.

The system can only communicate about the environment within itself. It cannot communicate with the environment. If systems communicate with each other, a greater system is introduced and emerging.

(material adapted from radical philosophy)