Stafford Beer: Designing Freedom (1974)
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In this book, Stafford Beer states the case for a science of systems theory and cybernetics.
The collection contains text of six radio broadcasts given in the autumn of 1973 as the thirteenth series of Massey Lectures which were established in 1961 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to enable distinguished authorities in fields of general interest and importance to present the results of original study or research.
Contents: “The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear,” “The Discarded Tools of Modern Man,” “A Liberty Machine in Prototype,” “Science in the Service of Man,” “The Future That Can Be Demanded Now”, “The Free Man in a Cybernetic World”.
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Comment (0)Edward Ihnatowicz: Cybernetic Art: A Personal Statement (1986)
Filed under brochure | Tags: · art, cybernetics, electronic art
Artist statement.
Self-published, 1986
10 pages
More information at Senster.com
Ihnatowicz at Monoskop wiki
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Heinz von Foerster: Understanding Understanding. Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition (2003)
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“In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. Included are path- breaking articles concerning the principles of computation in neural nets (1967), the definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970), as well as recent expansions on these themes (e.g. “How recursive is communication,” 1993). Working with Norbert Wiener, Warren McCullough, and others in the 1960s and 1970s, von Foerster was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics, which has had profound effects both on modern systems theory and on the philosophy of cognition. At the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois he produced the first parallel computers and contributed to many other developments in the theory of computation and cognition.”
Publisher Springer, 2003
ISBN 0387953922, 9780387953922
xii+362 pages
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