For the Love of Cybernetics

Personal Narratives by Cyberneticians
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-83892-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 183 g

For the Love of Cybernetics: Personal Narratives by Cyberneticians is a collection of personal accounts that offer unique insights into cybernetics via the personal journeys of nine individuals.

For the authors in this collection, cybernetics is not their "area of interest"–it is how they think about what they do, and it is their practice. Ray Ison, Bruce Clarke, Frank Galuzska, Paul Pangaro, Klaus Krippendorff, Peter Tuddenham, Lucas Pawlik, Bernard Scott, and Jocelyn Chapman differ in their lineage, emphasis, and engagement with cybernetics. What they have in common is that they share the belief that cybernetics is not a tool to apply here and there, but a unifying way of seeing the world that transforms how we behave, thus increasing possibilities for positive systemic change.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, World Futures.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapman, Jocelyn

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Theoretische Informatik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why Cybernetics? Why Love? 1. Toward Cyber-Systemic Thinking in Practice 2. Finding Cybernetics 3. The League 4. Winky Dink and Me: Origins 5. For the Love of Cybernetics 6. Hack or Die: How Humanity Steers Into Its Post-Digital Future 7. On Becoming a Cybernetician: Highlights and Milestones 8. My Scholarly Life in Cybernetics 9. Living and Loving Cybernetics

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyn Chapman, PhD, is a transdisciplinarian with a special interest in cybernetics and systems thinking. She is Director of the Transformative Inquiry Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California. She also teaches in the online Transformative Leadership MA and Transformative Studies PhD programs at CIIS.