Unwelcome news via Mark Johnson passed to the CYBCOM mailing list:

I am deeply sorry to write to inform you that Prof. Loet Leydesdorff died on Saturday morning. I’m sure many within the cybernetics community will share a deep sense of loss. .

Others will have better-informed tributes than I – and they are very welcome to post them here, and if I find them, I will share. But his work on knowledge-based economies, innovation, and growth (triple- and n-helix models) was globally recognised, and his work on Luhrmann, constructivism, redundancy and information theory, and application of the latter to music was truly interesting. A true multi-skilled, insight-generating cybernetician.
Here’s a brief introduction – by him – to his 2020 book

Other canonical links (starting with his website):
https://www.leydesdorff.net/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loet_Leydesdorff
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Loet-Leydesdorff/research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loet_Leydesdorff
https://cepa.info/author/leydesdorff-l

There are also interesting posts and already one tribute post on his facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/loet.leydesdorff/

Some relevant references from syscoi.com:

Improvisation Blog: Luhmann and Biology – Mark Johnson

https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/01/31/towards-a-calculus-of-redundancy-leyersdorff-2021/
https://stream.syscoi.com/2021/04/27/the-evolutionary-dynamics-of-discursive-knowledge-leyersdorff-2021-open-access-book/
and (very interesting, and just shared because I found a legal download link):
https://stream.syscoi.com/2023/03/13/beers-viable-system-model-and-luhmanns-communication-theory-organizations-from-the-perspective-of-metagames-johnson-and-leydesdorff-2013/

Beer’s Viable System Model and Luhmann’s Communication Theory: ‘Organizations’ from the Perspective of MetagamesSystems Research and Behavioral Science (2013)23 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2013 Last revised: 2 Aug 2013Mark JohnsonUniversity of BoltonLoet Leydesdorff

Beer’s Viable System Model and Luhmann’s Communication Theory: ‘Organizations’ from the Perspective of Metagames by Mark Johnson, Loet Leydesdorff :: SSRN

A dialogue about possible ideas and models relevant to cybernetics when “engaging conflict and other types of asynchronicity.

By American Society for Cybernetics

Sun, March 19, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Engaging Conflict and other forms of Asynchronicity Tickets, Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

March 13 (the second Monday of the month) is the 108th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://ecological-limits.eventbrite.ca .

Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals

This session celebrates the open access release of The Ecological Limits to Development!  

Katie Kish and Stephen Quilley critique and reimagine the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.  The existing SDGs are challenged through perspectives of ecological economics and complexity thinking.  New goals that align more thoroughly to biophysical limits to growth are suggested. 

Ways in which this set of new SDGs could be made usable for Canadian municipalities are also considered.

From the book description …

• Drawing on ideas from H.T. Odum, Herman Daly, Zigmunt Bauman, and many others, this book provides guiding research for a convergence between North and South that is bottom-up, household-centred, and predicated on a re-emerging domain of Livelihood.

Booking link and more in source:
Systems Thinking Ontario – 2023-03-13

Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | first Systems Changes article by David Ing in peer reviewed journal JSCI

 March 9, 2023  daviding

A special issue on “Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Design Post-Anthropocene: Through a Transdisciplinary Lens” in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics edited by Marie Davidová, Susu Nousala, and Thomas J. Marlowe has been released. In that issue, the journey of the Systems Changes Learning Circle from 1999 through 2022 is reviewed.

Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | JSCI – Coevolving Innovations

Apr 03

Two Major Misconceptions of Systems Thinking exposed – Quality SG

Exposing two misconceptions related to approaches to understanding complex problems discovered while reviewing the history of GST

By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

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When and where

Date and time

Mon, 3 April 2023, 19:30 – 21:00 BST

Location

Online

About this event

• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Mobile eTicket

SPEAKERS

Dr Joseph Kasser DSc, CEng2, CM, FIET, FIES, G3ZCZ from Australia

Mr Bruce Lerner M.Sc. B.Sc., SDMRM, MIEEE, MINCOSE from USA

Two Major Misconceptions of Systems Thinking exposed – Quality SG Registration, Mon 3 Apr 2023 at 19:30 | Eventbrite

I’ll be speaking at this – the event is just coming together, watch this space…

The first independent systems thinking summit

15-16-17 May 2023 online

7-10 pm New York time

The Systems Thinking Summit – A place for systems thinkers to meet

EconPapers: The Pretence of Knowledge – Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture, 1974
(The paper which Graham Berrisford alleges looks like a riposte to Stafford Beer’s CyberSyn – in any case, a useful and interesting piece of systems thinking)

EconPapers: The Pretence of Knowledge – Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture, 1974

The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data | The Nation – Greg Grandin

The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data | The Nation – Greg Grandin

ADAM SMITH AND THE “MAN OF SYSTEM” – Knowledge Problem

ADAM SMITH AND THE “MAN OF SYSTEM” – Knowledge Problem

Cybernetics and behaviourism – Hayek 1920, Pask 1970, Parallel Distributed Processing, 1987,Ana Teixeira Pinto, 2013

Cybernetics and behaviourism – Hayek 1920, Pask 1970, Parallel Distributed Processing, 1987,Ana Teixeira Pinto, 2013

Hayek: The Knowledge Problem – Jeffrey A Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education

Hayek: The Knowledge Problem – Jeffrey A Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education

On Hayek’s “Kinds of Order in Society” – Boudreaux

On Hayek’s “Kinds of Order in Society”

The Genealogy of Complexity – Cosma Shalizi (2003/2021)

The Genealogy of Complexity – Cosma Shalizi (2003/2021)

Complexity science in the name of politics: a travel diary – Petter Holme

Complexity science in the name of politics: a travel diary

Comment by Bian Cox linking to the next two pieces:

Alexander Bogdanov, Stafford Beer and intimations of a post-capitalist future, Prof Mike Jackson online, March 15th, 5:00-6:30 pm Metaphorum’s Webinar Series

The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – Hancock

The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – Hancock

(Including a link to a relevant London Review of Books podcast)

h/t Brian Cox

The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-OrganizationPost authorBy jhiblogPost dateJuly 29, 2022By Maxfield Hancock

The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – JHI Blog

See also the London Review of Books podcast:

The Hayek Puzzle

Jonathan Rée and Thomas Jones

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-hayek-puzzle

Blog 3: Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich PicturesResearch Stream: Stories/Lived ExperiencesAuthors: Bob Williams, Systems Thinking Practitioner, Trainer and Evaluator – Consultant. Joan O’Donnell, Systems Thinking Trainer and PhD Researcher at Maynooth University’s Assisting Living and Learning Institute, Research Funded through the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies (ADVANCE CRT)

Blog 3: Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures – Ideas in ALL

Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change, and New Technologies

Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change, and New Technologies | Santa Fe Institute

Inclusive Systemic Thinking for transformative changeMarch 7, 2023By Ellen Lewis and Anne Stephens

Inclusive Systemic Thinking for transformative change – Integration and Implementation Insights

I’m not quite sure what to think of this podcast yet, but/and this episode really pulls together loads of interesting ideas – and makes me think of ‘robust systems’ in Barry Oshry’s terms (https://www.quality-equality.com/what-lies-beneath-a-human-systems-perspective), of differentiation and integration in Sandra Janoff’s terms (https://www.robertsandkay.com/differentiation-integration-weisbord-janoff, after Yvonne Agazarian) etc…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam) ›Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95

Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95

Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly SwarmsStudies of collective behavior usually focus on how crowds of organisms coordinate their actions. But what if the individuals that don’t participate have just as much to tell us?

Jordana Cepelewicz

Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms | Quanta Magazine

2023 Conference

Metaphorum Conference (20 years after Stafford’s passing)

Viability through emancipation – or the hidden agenda of viability

Manchester, UK

8 – 10 June, 2023

2023 Conference – Metaphorum