니클라스 루만의 슬립 박스: 지적 경이로움

니클라스 루만의 슬립 박스는 9만 개의 메모가 담긴 사고 도구로, 그의 평생 프로젝트와 극한의 자기 수련을 보여줍니다.

### 니클라스 루만의 지적 유산: 슬립 박스와 그의 생각의 진화
* 🎂 니클라스 루만의 90번째 생일을 기념하여 그의 유산을 활용한 주요 저서가 출간됩니다: **사회의 사회 이론.**
* 📚 니클라스 루만이 사고의 도구로 사용하는 슬립 박스에는 **9만 개가 넘는 메모**가 들어 있어 수년, 수십 년에 걸친 그의 생각을 추적할 수 있습니다.
* 💭 슬립 박스는 여러 영역에 흩어져 있는 메모가 체계적이지 않은 독특한 순서로 구성되어 있어 **루만의 사고 과정에 대한 통찰력**을 제공합니다.
* 🗂 루만의 노트는 **16,000여 권의 참고 문헌**과 함께 광범위한 주제를 다루고 있어 그의 작품의 기원과 과학 사회학을 탐구하는 데 도움이 됩니다.
* 📝 루만의 노트와 출판된 작품 사이의 관계는 **병렬적인 공식과 슬립 박스가 그의 글에 미친 영향** 등으로 복잡합니다.
* 🔍 슬립 박스에는 **키워드 색인이 함께 제공**되어 루만의 극도의 자기 훈련과 지적 프로젝트에 대한 **평생의 헌신**을 보여줍니다.

We are sitting in Bielefeld, at the magnificent 1970s university that we can see here, and we have a double occasion: on the one hand, the 90th birthday of Niklas Luhmann in December, which is kindly accompanied by a publication by Suhrkamp Verlag, a major book from the estate: Social Theory of Society. André Kieserling is a professor of General and Theoretical Sociology. Can we say the Luhmann Chair? - That is the Luhmann Chair. And with Johannes Schmidt, who is in charge of the development of Niklas Luhmann's academic estate here at the University of Bielefeld. Were you familiar with the estate? Was Luhmann someone who invited colleagues to his home, and then one saw the stacks there? There was tourism to the slip box... - Was it at his home? Yes. - Not at the university. No, at home. That was also the reason for the dispute. The sons' lawyers said: This is furniture and belongs to us. A kind of memorial furniture perhaps. The daughter's lawyer said: This is part of the work, and I inherited that. There were tours of the box. He showed it, you practically saw nothing. There is also a wonderful note that comments on it: Sometimes spectators come and want to see the box. And they get to see everything, but only that. You can peek behind the scenes of

One can see how he thought because the slip box was a thinking tool. It was not an archive, as one might think, where things are stored to be retrieved later, but it was a device with which he thought. In this way, even though the filing system is more complicated, one can very well trace the development of thoughts over the years and decades, albeit with effort. Usually, with scholars, this can only be done through manuscripts and drafts. In an unpublished manuscript, he thought like this, then he revised it and published it. Here we have the raw version of the thoughts. How many notes do we have in there? - 90,000, maybe more by now. We are increasing as we explore further. Can they not be objectively counted? - We have not done that yet. We have scanned all except for a bibliographic excerpt. We could let the computer count them, but we haven't done that yet. In the estate, we still occasionally find individual notes that are stuck somewhere in books or attached to essays. These are usually notes with bibliographic information. And when is the latest note from? - They are not dated. That is the unfortunate part of the matter. One can only infer the dates of the notes based on handwriting, material and paper quality, and what is cited, of course.

And 96 are the last notes that have been created. This is evident in the cited literature, but they are few. One can see that it is only sporadic now. In the 90s, from 92, 93, it has only been sporadically filled. The first box goes from one, two, three, four, five, six, seven up to here. That is the early box. So, the 60s. 50s and 60s. So from 51, 52 to 62, 63, up to Parsons, so to speak. Only the section on world society has been continued here. The second box continues here. They are not labeled. In the course of the research, I attached notes, which I have now removed to know what is behind it. Luhmann had them standing to his left at home, to the left of the desk, under a windowsill, so on the floor. Two on top of each other, so two on top of each other, three next to each other, three blocks. So that he could reach them while sitting?
- Yes. That was the argument. That's why the argument was also that the notes should be as thin as possible, so that he could fit as many as possible into a box. These are not index cards, but they are actually personally hand-cut by him from DIN A4 to DIN A6 thin papers, so that he can fit as

To know what's inside, I flipped through it and created a table of contents. It's about 150 pages long. He often underlined the first line, almost like headings. Based on that and the content, I created table of contents. That's the number of the note with which each department starts. Then there are many notes below, so here at the back, there are more notes than just this one. Right? And Luhmann must have had the plan, so to speak, in mind, the content. Can you explain the system to us using one note? This is a nice note, for example. So, this note is numbered 5. This is the main department. At 5, I think it's about the office. 4da. The 5 is a main department, also a systematic order, from 1 to 11 in the second box. It did not arise in an orderly systematic way, but rather historically and in terms of works. So it's not a system that completely covers and divides a field of knowledge. Ultimately, it's a random order, these eleven departments. And after this first digit that describes this department, the notes are numbered in alternation of letters and numbers. So, the first note of the department is 1, then comes 2, 3, 4, and so on.

And now, of course, after 5/4, it's not 5/5 or 4da that we have here, but after 4da, comes 4db. How did he get to 4da? He had already written 4 and 5, so after 4, he wrote down 5 on the note, and then added something to the note 4. He wrote a new note, placed it behind the note 4, and that became note 4a. The principle of order is: I place one note behind the other. The decision to place it at the back is based solely on the criterion that it connects to the previous note. There is no systematic order: the note must be placed in the section because it systematically fits. That's not the point, it just has to match the note in front of it. As a result, notes on a topic are scattered in different areas of the box. It's a messy order. This is a classic note. It's like a subsection. It's about Scientific Management. And at the beginning of such subsections, he often makes reference notes, where he simply notes terms and note numbers related to the topic, but in different ways. Did he have an index of his box? - He only had a keyword index. It's not certain that we will find everything... Status we will surely find.

Office concept as well as group. But it is not certain that all terms are in the keyword register. This means that he knew some things by heart. There is an interview where he says, You can remember it better by changing letters and numbers. And then you see a red R here. We are also familiar with this from the manuscripts. There is also something written on the back here. Normally, the notes are only written on one side. If one had to take them out and turn them around, it would take too long. So, normally, they are only written on the front. Here, it continues on the back because he noted so much, including references to literature, that's why there is an R in the front. And then you see a red 1 and a red 2, which now refer to notes that are right behind them. So... 4.1. Yes, that is down here, further referencing ultimately, and 4.2, so the 2 up there. Here it says 4.2, the 2 is noted so he knows which 2 it is. This note is like a clue from the referencing direction. There will probably be notes here that he wrote, inserted, and never touched again. - Exactly. And there will be notes that were intensely used. Yes. Yes. Yes. Can you see that? - Yes, for example, here.

Up here, this has been done relatively often by him, it was used. Sometimes you can also see departments where the notes are closely packed together, and when you take them out, they are like an uncut book. They were actually never taken out again. This is a typical first note of a department. He first quotes, he writes down the literature he has read for it. Here it says Goffman, the most important reference author, with a year. In the table of contents, you can see that there is indeed a department. It also says Book Plan/Lecture Plan, so he made a plan, and then worked on terms: Structure and Performance, Presence is important. Autonomy, Concept of roles is extremely important. The Magnitude. Internal differentiation. Status, the meaning of status. Power. Direct and indirect communication. This is hidden behind the department, which is relatively narrow with 1000 notes. That is the interesting thing about the slip box. So, the bibliography of the second box has at least 16,000 titles. So 16,000 titles that he noted, of which one must assume he may not have had all of them in hand, but still many of them. Work genesis, work history can be explored with this, and that's what we do through the expanded digital version.

Who did he quote? Who did he read? When is difficult to answer because the notes are not dated. That means one would have to infer a little from the handwriting, from the other quoted works listed on the notes. The expectation that one could write books with it is presumptuous, rather it is actually a subject of sociology of science. One often sees identical formulations on notes as in books. One must be careful about how the causal relationship actually was. At first, I also thought that everything from the slip box had moved into the book. But it has often been the case that he also wrote very successful formulations, which he wrote in book manuscripts, then also in the slip box, or that it ran parallel in time. This is also seen in articles that are thematically very pronounced. The best example is the essay on the slip box, from which Mr. Kieserling quoted earlier. There you find formulations on the notes that you find exactly like that in the essay. One does not know ... what came first. - That is not known exactly. But one can also see from the handwriting that it was written closely in the context of writing the essay. So it is not something that was noted at some point without a specific direction, but it was noted when he was writing the essay.

At the end of the collection, there are always newly created keyword indexes. He wrote down keywords and sorted them alphabetically, noting only a few card numbers for each. It was not a complete index as a book index should be. He noted two numbers with the argument that one can find all other references through the internal cross-references in the box. So, I don't need to strive for completeness in any way. However, more and more words were added, and then it was no longer clear within the letters because it was no longer alphabetically sorted within the letters. So, he rewrote it, first alphabetically within the letters. Therefore, ultimately there are four different versions of it. The last two are typed on index cards. It looks like this. This is a keyword index created late. He added something by hand. You always see few numbers. Sometimes one, two, at most three or four. But you can see very nicely, for example, with the term Code (Media), how long the number and letter tails become. Exactly, this is far from the end. It goes up to 12 digits. I find the entire work intellectually impressive when you consider someone who is at the beginning of their scientific career.

Actually, he already knows conceptually what he will actually do. And this is not a three-year project, but a lifelong project. Firstly, to have it in mind at all, and then to pursue it with such consistency over such a long period of time with extreme self-discipline, also at the expense of the environment, is intellectually impressive. Subtitles: Silke Nagel.

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빌레펠트 대학교의 니클라스 루만 학술 유산

빌레펠트 대학교는 니클라스 루만의 90번째 생일을 기념하여 그의 주요 저서인 "사회이론"의 출판을 기념하고 있습니다.

유명한 슬립박스 파일링 시스템을 포함한 루만의 학문적 유산은 9만 개가 넘는 노트와 함께 그의 사상 발전에 대한 독특한 통찰력을 제공합니다.

이 유산은 여전히 조사 중이며, 객관적으로 집계되지 않은 노트는 루만의 사상을 날것 그대로 보여주며 필체와 내용을 바탕으로만 연대를 추정할 수 있습니다.

루만의 노트는 특정한 구성과 번호 체계에 따라 산발적으로 작성되었습니다.

노트는 얇은 종이를 루만이 직접 손으로 오려서 상자에 최대한 많이 넣었고, 각 부서는 번호가 매겨진 메인 노트부터 시작했습니다.

노트의 구성은 완전히 체계적으로 지식을 구분한 것이 아니라 각 부서 내에서 문자와 숫자를 번갈아 가며 번호가 매겨진 역사적, 업무 기반 순서에 따라 이루어졌습니다.

연구원의 노트 필기 방식에는 고유한 번호 매기기와 참조 노트 시스템이 포함되어 있습니다.

노트는 이전 노트와 연결되는 원칙에 따라 상자의 여러 영역에 아무렇게나 흩어져 배치되어 있습니다.

페이지 뒷면에 참조 노트, 빨간색 번호, 메모를 사용하는 것은 복잡하고 개인화된 정리 시스템을 나타냅니다.

독특한 노트 필기 시스템과 연구에서의 역할

노트 필기 시스템에는 문헌 참고 자료와 과학 사회학의 핵심 개념에 중점을 둔 조밀하게 정리된 노트가 포함되어 있습니다.

16,000개의 제목으로 구성된 방대한 참고 문헌은 작품의 기원과 역사를 탐구하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

노트, 책 원고, 에세이가 서로 연결되어 있어 인과 관계와 기록된 내용의 연대기에 대한 의문을 제기합니다.

처음에는 내부 상호 참조를 목적으로 제한된 카드 번호로 키워드 색인을 만들었습니다.

더 많은 단어가 추가됨에 따라 색인이 무질서해져 네 가지 버전으로 나뉘었고, 마지막 두 개는 색인 카드에 입력되었습니다.

평생에 걸친 프로젝트인 이 색인은 일관성과 극도의 자기 절제가 돋보이는 지적으로 인상적인 작업입니다.