It’s always interesting to watch the social appropriation of technical tools and idioms. Complex systems research (which never succeeded in defining itself cogently) seems to be diffusing into all sorts of disciplines. At Professional-Lurker, a CFP for the conference “Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts”:

Papers are sought which apply scholarship from the growing field of Complexity Studies (dealing with emergence, cultural complexity, protocol, control, information, technology, network theory) in their analysis of mediated texts. Of particular interest are papers which address the role of complexity and cultural artifacts in relation to multiculturalism, nationalism, transnationalism, postcolonialism, or identity politics, as manifest within (or in relation to) the public sphere.

Interestingly, I already don’t know what most of that last bit means. Probably because I’m no longer a complexity researcher.