Obituary for the Complexity Scientist Edgar Morin

On 29 May 2026, Edgar Morin passed away in Paris at an advanced age, just short of his 105th birthday. He was born Edgar Nahoum on 8 July 1921 in Paris, the son of secular Jewish immigrants from Thessaloniki, and himself lived a complex biography: a fighter in the...

Edgar Morin has left us

It is with sorrow that I announce the death of Edgar Morin, the 29th of May at 104 years. It is with responsibility that I wish to pay a tribute to him. A researcher, an irreverent thinker, the father of complexity. I’ve met him many times – in Roma, Milano,...

In praise of collaboration

It all began three years ago with an intuition, that of Reynaldo Perrone, who planted a seed of an idea in the minds of his friends in Latin America and Europe… A meeting was arranged with two presidents, Umberta Telfener (EFTA) and Marcélo Cébério (RELATES)....