Beyond the Darkness of our Age. For a non-mechanistic view of complex organization as living organisms.

Abstract The urgent requirements of the “new” cognitive, subjective, organizational, social and ethical (hyper)complexity that contradistinguishes the age of globalization and its interconnected, interdependent world systems, regard the configuration of a theoretical interpretive model capable of recognizing and illustrating the uncertain trajectories and the numerous discontinuities of the ongoing process of global change, which is casting doubts on paradigms, methodologies, analytical tools, and (organizational and non-organizational) culture. In the midst of this phase of upheaval and emergency (it should be clear that emergency is a structural, connotative characteristic of complex systems and organizations), in which technology and the “digital revolution” seem to restore the illusion of total control and of decisional and systemic rationality - open transnational communities, focusing on the people, on the relational spaces, on education and on communication, must be realized through long-term, transnational policies, investing significant resources on complex instruments in order to contrast the new inequalities and asymmetries that are standing in the way of openness and dialogue. Keywords: open transnational communities, hypercomplexity, systemic perspective, global change, emergency, organizational complexity