Mike Jackson Arnold Keynote Speaker at INCOSE UK ASEC 2023, 21-22 November 2023, Liverpool, UK

INCOSE UK

Exciting news 📢 We are pleased to announce Dr Mike C Jackson OBE as the Arnold Keynote Speaker on Day Two of ASEC 2023!

Michael is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull and MD of Systems Research Ltd, Michael’s expertise spans civil service, academia, and consultancy. He’s a triple-crown accredited former Dean of Hull University Business School and a key figure in critical Systems Thinking.

Join us at ASEC 2023 to hear his invaluable insights! Book your spot at ASEC 2023 now: https://bit.ly/3ZKUCD1

#SystemsEngineering #ASEC2023UK

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Concentration – Geo. W. Walker (1896)

Matthew Shapiro

In the Ecology of Systems Thinking group says:

Since systems thinking in education is a common topic in this group (and perhaps its cousin or sister interdisciplinary thinking is welcome as well), I thought to post this little article from 1896, which describes one way to approach it. The following is the introduction. “Concentration , or the correlation of studies, is only the extension of the principle of the relativity of knowledge which has been current in the world since the rise of a philosophy of the sciences. The assumption of the relativity of knowledge is denial that knowledge is absolute At the same time it is an assertion that each province of knowledge is related to all others, that all the departments of human knowledge form one articulated body of which the various branches of learning form mutually dependent parts.”

The Ecology of Systems Thinking | Since systems thinking in education is a common topic in this group (and perhaps its cousin or sister interdisciplinary thinking is welcome as well), … | Facebook
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PROJECT CYBERSYN: STAFFORD BEER IN ALLENDE’S CHILE 1970s + BRIAN ENO – May (2016)

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

PROJECT CYBERSYN: STAFFORD BEER IN ALLENDE’S CHILE 1970s + BRIAN ENO

UPDATED/11th September 2016

The Generalist: PROJECT CYBERSYN: STAFFORD BEER IN ALLENDE’S CHILE 1970s + BRIAN ENO

https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2016/08/project-cybersyn-stafford-beer-in_31.html?fbclid=IwAR1lleGwLuGPWKjkNbLUZYRxz1U-KdFenwwCxtmNQTkKdPotya7NzlTQLOs

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines – article by Maria Popova (2018)

BY MARIA POPOVA

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our MachinesBY MARIA POPOVA

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines – The Marginalian

Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity by Froese (2023) plus other papers on Twitter thread

Entropy | Free Full-Text | Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity

Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activityby Tom FroeseEmbodied Cognitive Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son 904-0495, Okinawa, JapanEntropy 2023, 25(5), 748; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25050748Received: 20 February 2023 / Revised: 27 April 2023 / Accepted: 27 April 2023 / Published: 2 May 2023(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brain Theory from Artificial Life)

Entropy | Free Full-Text | Irruption Theory: A Novel Conceptualization of the Enactive Account of Motivated Activity

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/5/748

Combining: A Reading by Nora Bateson of her new book – 30 Sep 2023 6:00pm, Players Club, Gramercy Park, NY USA

30 Sep 2023 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

New York Society for General Semantics – Combining: A Reading by Nora Bateson

https://nysgs.org/event-5402217?fbclid=IwAR3LWI3LBTByXVYZpdGtlUXZlAlIBCYF8Nb3dNcKnRh6UKZD6fobQvry4Tc

Combining

A Reading by Nora Bateson

Join us on Saturday, September 30th, as we celebrate the publication of Combining, the latest book by Institute of General Semantics Trustee Nora Bateson. The New York Society for General Semantics is pleased to host a reading and book signing with the author during her brief visit to New York City. The event is cosponsored by the Institute of General Semantics.

In Combining Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity.

Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity’s survival, she advocates change through interdependencies and challenges us to rethink our perspectives on relationships, community, and the very essence of being human.

A blend of intellectual inquiry, essays, emotional engagement, storytelling, poetry and graphic art, Combining is an invitation to nurture genuine connections and navigate a world brimming with “Warm Data”—the interrelationships that integrate elements of every complex system. The book calls on us to shed our linear thinking and embrace “Aphanipoiesis” — the unseen ways in which life comes together to foster vitality and propel evolution.

In Combining, love, humor, curiosity, and vulnerability entwine amidst the trials of a world in flux. As we face the Polycrisis, Nora Bateson urges us to swerve from the traditional paths and to dismantle the illusions of fitting in. She beckons us to step into a world where learning, uncutness, and readiness converge, promising both revelation and revolution.

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, international lecturer, research designer, author, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute. She is the founder and creator of Warm Data and the practices of the Warm Data Lab and People Need People Online.

Nora wrote, directed, and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles published by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.

Come join us for an inspiring and illuminating evening!

6 PM to 9 PM Saturday, September 30th at the historic Players Club in Gramercy Park. 

Registration is free, but all attendees must be registered in order to gain admittance to the club. This includes any guests you might want to bring with you.

The program will take place in the Library on the 2nd floor of the club. Please note that, as an historic 19th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).

The Absent-Minded Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener – Veisdal (2020) (medium.com paywall)

Jørgen Veisdal

Published in Cantor’s Paradise

30 min read

Mar 7, 2020

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-absent-minded-father-of-cybernetics-norbert-wiener-2a0b66aa6b4b

The Absent-Minded Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener | by Jørgen Veisdal | Cantor’s Paradise

Ongoing Twitter thread from Yunus Şahin of key books and papers – nominally cognitive science focus but/and therefore with much complexity and cybernetics

Yunus Şahin

@herrbokologist

May 22, 2020In this thread, I decided to share some of the papers -and occasionally books- from different fields that impressed me. They will be opinion-based works most of the time, rather than technical ones.

Yunus Şahin on X: “47) Villalobos and Ward (2015). Same as the above. This paper has a special emphasis on the conceptions of organizational closure and how autopoietic theory of Maturana is internally consistent -whereas enactivism not- … + https://t.co/YrRZMEfWiC” / X

Gerald Midgley – A Systems Theory of Marginalization and its Implications for Systemic InterventionNov 2021 – SCiO (systems and complexity in organisation) open meeting recording – YouTube

SCiO systems and complexity in organisation

Gerald Midgley – Nov 2021 – SCiO Open Meeting

Gerald Midgley – Nov 2021 – SCiO Open Mtg – YouTube

A Systems Theory of Marginalization and its Implications for Systemic Intervention: In this talk, Gerald Midgley will present the systems theory of marginalization that he has been developing and applying in systemic interventions for almost 30 years. This theory offers a generic model of marginalization processes that is equally relevant to relationships between people in small groups, organizations, communities and international relations. Both people and the issues that concern them can become marginalized. Gerald will share several strategies for challenging marginalization when it has negative consequences. However, some of these strategies have a dark side that needs to be acknowledged if our projects are not to have unforeseen side-effects. The theory will be extensively illustrated with practical examples of projects from the UK and New Zealand.

Rethinking Education Podcast #16: Guy Claxton on neotraditional myths

2:26:28

Rethinking Education

24 Apr 2021

Professor Guy Claxton is a hugely influential academic, thinker and author of over 30 books on learning, intelligence and creativity, including Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Wise Up, What’s the point of school, Intelligence in the flesh, Educating Ruby and The Learning Power Approach. Guy previously appeared on the Rethinking Education podcast, an episode you can access here:   / re07-guy-claxton  .

0:01 / 2:26:28•IntroRethinking Education Podcast #16: Guy Claxton on neotraditional mythsRethinking Education320 subscribersSubscribed 12345678901234567890123456789 ShareDownloadClipSave157 views 24 Apr 2021Professor Guy Claxton is a hugely influential academic, thinker and author of over 30 books on learning, intelligence and creativity, including Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Wise Up, What’s the point of school, Intelligence in the flesh, Educating Ruby and The Learning Power Approach. Guy previously appeared on the Rethinking Education podcast, an episode you can access here:   / re07-guy-claxton  .

Rethinking Education Podcast #16: Guy Claxton on neotraditional myths – YouTube

Or on podcast

https://overcast.fm/+n2xyDvHhM/50:25

Barn Doors on Perspectives – flowchainsensei (Bob Marshall)

Dataart Publishes Ukrainian IT Visionary Victor Glushkov’s Complete Memoirs For The First Time

8/24/2023 10:01:04 AM

DataArt IT Museum unveils Ukrainian cybernetics founder’s exclusive memoirs to commemorate his centennial anniversary.

Dataart Publishes Ukrainian It Visionary Victor Glushkov’s Complete Memoirs For The First TimeDate8/24/2023 10:01:04 AM Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter (MENAFN- EIN Presswire)DataArt IT Museum unveils Ukrainian cybernetics founder’s exclusive memoirs to commemorate his centennial anniversary.

Dataart Publishes Ukrainian It Visionary Victor Glushkov’s Complete Memoirs For The First Time | MENAFN.COM

https://menafn.com/1106935842/Dataart-Publishes-Ukrainian-It-Visionary-Victor-Glushkovs-Complete-Memoirs-For-The-First-Time

Direct link:

https://museum.dataart.com/en/victor-glushkov/

BBC Great Lives Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows

Great Lives – Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows – BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pt9w?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Ashoka: Roots of Change: How Social Entrepreneurs Advance Systems Change in Africa

How do systems-change approaches address the root causes of deeply entrenched societal problems rather than the symptoms only? What are examples of systems-change strategies led by social entrepreneurs in Africa? What are key learnings for key stakeholders to scale social innovation on the continent?

Ashoka is launching the Roots of Change report with 5 cases of Ashoka Fellows in Africa to demystify systems change and contextualize it for the African continent. The report also distills How To’s and insights for social change leaders, impact investors and philanthropists, and influential players such as corporates and governments to accelerate positive change.

Much still needs to be done to support systems-changers in Africa. Please help us spread the word!

Roots of Change: How Social Entrepreneurs Advance Systems Change in Africa

Roots of Change Report | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker

https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/roots-of-change

Illuminate Systems Change on YouTube

Illuminate Systems Change

Illuminate Systems Change – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@illuminatesystemschange1988

Including power, justice, and systems change series