For the Love of Cybernetics - Personal Narratives by Cyberneticians

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Jocelyn Chapman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032838922
• ISBN: 978-1-03-283892-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Weight: 280 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Artificial Intelligence, COMPUTERS / General, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, SCIENCE / System Theory, COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, COMPUTERS / Cybernetics, COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, Cybernetics & systems theory, Cybernetics and systems theory