Malaina Martín, Álvaro Miguel2025-01-202025-01-202014Malaina, 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/10.1080/02604027.2014.9859500260-402710.1080/02604027.2014.985950https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115134Since 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.engjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2014.985950restricted access316AssemblageBourdieuEmpireFoucaultCiencias Sociales63 Sociología