The Network Synthesis of Social Action II: Understanding Catjects

This is the second paper of a pair of two, the first one of which looked at a sociological theory of a computer-based future society distinct from earlier language-based 'primitive' society, writing-based ancient society, and printing press-based modern society. If the form of the next society's culture will be the Spencer-Brownian form as we suggest, then sociological theory will have to reformulate itself in terms of an analysis of network synthesis. We look at possible reasons to do so, stemming above all from demands to be able to describe and understand how social actors are able to frame indeterminacy, present a possible model of social action, and advance the idea that it may be useful to base social analysis neither on subjects nor on objects but on a hypokeimon which we here propose to christen 'catjects'. Catjects describe how a network synthesis comes about.