SE is naturally a reaction to the embedded social malfunction and tries to transform it to a better and socially, environmentally, politically, or economically beneficial status.
The circumstances of his characters' births present Houellebecq with an opportunity to tether his philosophy to a specific social malfunction.
I admit to thinking a cyberpsychologist was something that a game developer had invented for their Gibsonesque cyberpunk game, where synthetic humans plug in at jack-in points and have their circuits probed for social relay malfunctions.
I spent Monday and Tuesday having a bit of a malfunction on social media, shouting at people, hurling epithets.
It may also cause social, economic and environmental malfunction.
Two types of factors: 1) technical (e.g., equipment malfunction), and 2) social (e.g., human and organizational factors) are important in analyzing hazards of a socio-technical process system as a whole.
Speaking of jet lag: Disruption to your normal sleep patterns -- whether it's from mismatched internal and external cues, as in social jet lag, or a "malfunction" in your personal circadian clock, as in narcolepsy -- can lead to both insomnia and excessive sleepiness, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
These results may indicate that decreased activation of the prefrontal cortex underlies neural malfunction related to social cognition and behavior.
Russell Brand recently blamed the tragedy not (as many have), on Lufthansa, the company which employed Lubitz, not solely on Lubitz himself, but on our culture of relentless overwork and social alienation which causes people to malfunction.
The authors believe that two types of interacting factors: 1) technical (equipment malfunction, process parameter variation), and 2) social (regulations/policy, human and organizational factors) are important in assessment of risk for a process system.
