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Mary Catherine Bateson

Compositions in Living Cybernetics
Frederick Steier

This collection of essays from authors representing a range of disciplines from anthropology to design to creativity and spirituality, as well as transdisciplinary perspectives that are at the heart of cybernetics, honours Mary Catherine Bateson's life and work.



Humberto Maturana

Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds
Frederick Steier

This volume is grounded in a deep appreciation of the rich and cohesive constellation of ideas developed by Humberto Maturana which, taken as a whole, can be understood as a biocultural matrix of human understanding.



The Architecture of Ideas

The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician
Bill Seaman

This book contains a collection of writings related to the work of Ranulph Glanville. The editor, Bill Seaman, includes a piece titled 'Composing Composing' which explores a number of Glanville's texts. Also included is an interview with Glanville titled 'A Long Conversation', and a text by Aartle Hulstein, Ranulph's wife.



Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973

Louis H. Kauffman

This Special Issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing contains rare material related to G. Spencer-Brown's book Laws of Form and its contents. In 1973 there was a conference at Big Sur at which Spencer-Brown discussed his calculus with a group of scientists. In this issue we print Walter Barney’s transcripts of the conference.



Laws of Form

Commentary and Remembrance for George Spencer-Brown
Louis H. Kauffman

This volume is a collection of articles on themes related to the book Laws of Form by George Spencer-Brown.



Ranulph Glanville and How to Live the Cybernetics of Unknowing

Soren Brier

A festschrift issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing focusing on the work of Ranulph Glanville, cybernetician, design researcher, theorist, educator and multi-platform artist/designer/performer.



The Scientific Metaphysics of Charles S. Peirce

Bent Sorensen

This collection of articles investigates central themes and difficulties in the metaphysics of C.S. Peirce.



Transdisciplinary Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics

Soren Brier

The guiding idea behind this collection of papers is a presentation of the transdisciplinary scope of the new semiotics offering a deeper and broader framework than the structuralist semiology.



Emergence and Downward Determination

Charbel Nino El-Hani

This special issue of the journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing brings together contributions to the debate on emergence and related topics from a variety of perspectives, especially the sciences of complexity and cybernetics.



Luhmann Applied

Soren Brier

This book brings together international experts on the application of Niklas Luhmann's theory of society as autopoietic communication.



Peirce and Spencer-Brown

History and Synergies in Cybersemiotics
Soren Brier

This special double issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing is comprised of a collection of papers devoted to the cybernetics and mathematics of Charles Sanders Peirce with a special focus on its synergies with George Spencer-Brown's thinking.



Gregory Bateson

Essays for an Ecology of Ideas
Frederick Steier

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing celebrate the Bateson Centennial.



Francisco J. Varela 1946-2001

Soren Brier

A volume dedicated to the life and work of Francisco Varela, this is an issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".



Thomas Sebeok and the Biosemiotic Legacy

Soren Brier

Dedicated to the life and work of Thomas Sebeok, this is an issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".



Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002

Soren Brier

Dedicated to the life and work of Heinz Von Foerster, this is a double issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".