1st Edition

For the Love of Cybernetics Personal Narratives by Cyberneticians

Edited By Jocelyn Chapman Copyright 2020
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Why Cybernetics? Why Love?, Jocelyn Chapman

Chapter 1: Toward Cyber-Systemic Thinking in Practice, Ray Ison

Chapter 2: Finding Cybernetics, Bruce Clarke

Chapter 3: The League, Frank Galuszka

Chapter 4: Winky Dink and Me: Origins, Paul Pangaro

Chapter 5: For the Love of Cybernetics, Peter D. Tuddenham

Chapter 6: Hack or Die: How Humanity Steers Into Its Post-Digital Future, Lucas Pawlik

Chapter 7: On Becoming a Cybernetician: Highlights and Milestones, Bernard Scott

Chapter 8: My Scholarly Life in Cybernetics, Klaus Krippendorff

Chapter 9: Living and Loving Cybernetics, Jocelyn Chapman

Biography

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.