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Book Synopsis1.Black Swans and Obsolete Paradigms. The impossibility of a working synthesis and the urgency of inhabiting indeterminacy.- 2. What about Social Bonds? The grand illusions of the hypertechnological civilization and the complex interaction of the Human with technique and machines.- 3. Beyond Linearity: the Complexity of Complexity and an Epistemology of Error.- 4. Dilemmas and Paradoxes of the Hypercomplex Society.- 5. For a “New Social Contract”. The asymmetrical society and the strategic centrality of education and training.- 6. The Tyranny of Concreteness and the Urgency of a Radical Breakthrough.- 7. To Cross or to Inhabit the Frontiers of the Hypercomplex Society? Rethinking education and the general architecture of the fields of knowledge.- 8. Thought and Thinking in the Hypertechnological Civilization of Automation and Simulation: Artificial Intelligence as a “New Epistemological Fracture”.- 9. Rethinking the Human and Re-mediating the Social: because “Democracy is Complexity”.