Warren Brodey

Warren Brodey
Born	January 25, 1924(1924-01-25) Toronto, Canada
Lives in	Båstad, Norway

Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey (R) in 1968. Source.

Warren Brodey is a psychiatrist, cyberneticist and designer.

Books

• Changing the Family, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1968.

• Earthchild: Glories of the Asphyxiated Spectrum, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1974.

• Family Dance: Building Positive Relationships through Family Therapy, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1977.

Papers, articles and other writings

• with Marjorie Hayden, "Intrateam Reactions: Their Relation to the Conflicts of the Family in Treatment," in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 27:2 (1957), 349-355. DOI.

• "Some Family Operations and Schizophrenia: A Study of Five Hospitalized Families Each with a Schizophrenic Member," in A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry (October 1959), 379-402.

• The Family as the Unit of Study and Treatment: Workshop, 1959: 3. "Image, Object and Narcissistic Relationships", in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 31: 1 (1961), 69–73. DOI.

• "Normal Developmental Learning and the Education of the Child Born Blind," in Gifted Child Quarterly 6:4 (1962), 141-149. DOI.

• "On Family Therapy," in Family Process 2:2 (September 1963), 280-287.

• "Sound and Space," in Journal of the American Institute of Architects 42 (1964), 58-60.

• "On the Dynamics of Narcissism: I. Externalization and Early Ego Development," in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Vol. 20, New York: International Universities Press, 1965, 165-193.

• with Warren McCulloch, "The Biological Sciences", in The Great Ideas Today, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1966, 288-334.

• "A Cybernetic Approach to Family Therapy" in Family Therapy and Disturbed Families, Palo Alto, Calif.: Science & Behavior Books, 1967.

• "The Clock Manifesto," in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 138:1 (1967), 895-899.

• "Remarks by Warren Brodey", Press Kit for Press Conference for E.A.T., Experiments in Art and Technology, 1967.

• with Nilo Lindgren, "Human Enhancement through Evolutionary Technology", in IEEE Spectrum 4:9 (September 1967), 87-97.

• "Soft Architecture: The Design of Intelligent Environments", in Landscape 17:1 (Autumn 1967), 8-12.

• with Nilo Lindgren, "Human Enhancement: Beyond the Machine Age", in IEEE Spectrum 5:2 (February 1968), 79-93.

• "Building a Creative Environment," in Innovation 5 (1969), 2-9.

• "Warren Brodey describes how the blind, if asked, can teach us to experience the other-than-visual world," in Architectural Design (January 1969), 9-10.

• "Unlearning the Obsolescent," in Architectural Design (September 1969), 483-484.

• "Experiments in Evolutionary Environmental Ecology," in Murray Milne (ed.) Computer Graphics in Architecture and Design: Proceedings of the Yale Conference on Computer Graphics in Architecture," New Haven: Yale School of Art and Architecture, 1969, 89-96.

• "Information Exchange in the Time Domain," in William Gray, Frederick J. Duhl and Nicholas D. Rizzo (eds.) General Systems Theory and Psychiatry, New York: Little, Brown, 1969, 229-243.

• "If You Can't Support the Revolution Let the Revolution Support You," in Innovation 15 (October 1970), 12-22.

• with Avery R. Johnson, "Experiments in Self-Learning: Closed Loop Simulation," in T.D. Sterling et. al. (eds.) Visual Prosthesis: The Interdisciplinary Dialogue, New York and London: Academic Press, 1971, 199-205.

• with Avery R. Johnson, "Soft Control Material", U.S. Patent 3,585,356 filed April 24, 1972; issued June 18, 1974.

• "Biotopology 1972", in Radical Software 4 (Summer 1971), 4-7.

• with Avery R. Johnson, "Dialogue and Exploration of Context: Properties of an Adequate Interface", in Herbert W. Robinson and Douglas E. Knight (eds.), Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium of the American Society for Cybernetics, New York: Spartan Books, 1972. [1]

• with Gregory Bateson, "The Treaty of Kalakalua Bay," unpublished manuscript, 1972.

• "Recycling Biotopology 1972: Notes from Ecology, Tool & Toy," in Radical Software 5 (May 1972), 34-36.

Literature

• Nicholas Negroponte, The Architecture Machine, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970, passim.

• Nicholas Negroponte, "Aspects of Living in an Architecture Machine", in Nigel Cross (ed.), Design Participation: Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, 1971, London: Design Research Society, 1972, 63-67.

• Nicholas Negroponte, Soft Architecture Machines, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975, passim. [2]

• Larry D. Busbea, "Soft Control Material: Environment and Design c. 1970", Journal of Design History 30:2, May 2017, pp 139-156, DOI; upd. as "Soft Control Material", in Busbea, The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 141-166.

• Evgeny Morozov, ‘A Bath of Continuous Sensations’: Warren Brodey’s Quest for Human Augmentation and Intelligent Environments, 1955-1975, Harvard University, 2018, unpublished PhD dissertation.

Films and Videos

• Andy Mann and Darcy Umstedter, Biotopology - Ecology - Interview with Warren Brodey, 1970. In Raindance Foundation Video Archive, ZKM, Karlsruhe.

• Telling the Fish about Water, dir. Christian Grote, Bayerischen Rundfunk, 1970. Excerpt.

Links

• Brodey's Youtube channel

• A Sense of Rebellion, podcast series by Evgeny Morozov, 2024

• Warren Brodey: Earthchild - A Time Journey, exhibition, Guttormsgaards arkiv, Blaker, Norway, 2024

• The Murray Bowen Archives Project

• Warren Brodey Archive, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, University of Vienna

• Brodey in The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates), Illinois Library