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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Malaina Martín, Álvaro Miguel author 2014 Since the foundation of the Santa Fe Institute, the new science of complex adaptive systems (CAS) has seen extraordinary development, breaking with previous, more epistemological, trends in complexity theory. This article makes a critique of CAS as a model of the current global complexity. Its basic model, the cellular automaton, which focuses on the interactive dynamics among components, ignores the nature of any complex system as constructed by the observer/actor and is unable to explain the sociohistorical construction of the agents/subjects (analyzed by Foucault) and the social structure in which they are located (analyzed by Bourdieu), thus being unable to accurately represent the overall social complexity. Malaina, A. (2014). Complex Adaptive Systems and Global Capitalism: The Risk of a New Ideology of Global Complexity. World Futures, 70(8), 469–485. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2014.985950 0260-4027 10.1080/02604027.2014.985950 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115134 https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2014.985950 Complex Adaptive Systems Science and Global Capitalism. The New Ideology of Global Complexity