Joost RekveldThe still very cool 'Cybernetic' zine from 1986, with the slogan "Cybernetic, the magazine: your mind will never be the same". A thread through this issue seems to be the violence inflicted on society by the application of certain types of reason.
The very cool 'Cybernetic" zine from 1985, with Pask, Maturana, von Foerster and Winograd as the editorial board. (and yes, I know it is available online in a great scan).
Claudia WestermannThe special issue of Constructivist Foundations features four target articles that emerged from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven peer commentaries and the authors' respective responses to these.
https://constructivist.info/20/2
Register for free on the journal's website. With a voluntary subscription before April 22, get a print copy of the special issue per post.
#Cybernetics #SecondOrderCybernetics #Systems #DesignResearch
For some reason the three monograph tomes that Gordon Pask published in the 1970s are extremely hard to find: very expensive or simply not available anywhere. So after many years I am very happy I found a copy of this one from 1975.
Glad that I found a copy of this tome by Bernard Scott, long-time collaborator of Gordon Pask.
#BernardScott #GordonPask #SecondOrderCybernetics #SystemsThatMatter
Apparently, Soviet second-order cybernetics was a thing.
#utdlibrary #SovietCybernetics #SecondOrderCybernetics #SystemsThatMatter
Jef AllbrightYour mention of #SecondOrderCybernetics made my day!
I've been arguing for over twenty years (to anyone who would listen, and almost no one gets it) that the key to the perennial paradoxes of #Consciousness, #SelfIdentity, and #FreeWill—and fundamental to a coherent #Metaethics—is understanding the relationship of the observer to the observed, especially when the observer _is_ the observed.
Now I have some reading to catch up on.
HarishjosevThe main issue with ontological models is that they don’t make sense because they don’t include the observer. And if you do include the observer, they make even less sense. #SecondOrderCybernetics