Cybernetics & System Theory

Slide Show Introductory lecture on Norbert Wiener and cybernetics.

Related Theories:

Cognitive Science (off-site)
Interactional View
Information Theory
Technology

Links:

Feedback (notes by J. de Rosnay, from Principia Cybernetica WWW)
Cybernetics and Systems Theory: General background material on the field of Cybernetics and Systems Theory.
Principia Cybernetica: This is the WWW server of the Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP), an international organization. The Project's aim is the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy. Put more simply, PCP tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.
Principia Cybernetica Electronic Library This electronic library provides free, downloadable copies of basic books on cybernetics and systems science.
Digital Media Cybernetics - Complexity - Complex Systems (U. of Iowa, Communication Studies)
Oikos (This page makes the bridging connections from Ecology to Psychology. In particular it focuses on the many different but interweaving themes which unite five writers:  G. Kelly,  G. Bateson,  R. Laing, H. Maturana, &  E. v. Glasersfeld)
Overview of Autopoietic Theory (Randall Whitaker)
Autopoiesis and Enaction: Observer Web (Randall Whitaker)
Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities: (Resources on cybernetics, complex systems, and cyberculture)
Radical Constructivism: "What we make of experience constitutes the only world we consciously live in." (Ernst von Glasersfeld)
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture)
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
EDUCATIONAL CYBERNETICS (Course offered at Concordia University)

 

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