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New Books in Systems and Cybernetics

Interviews with Scholars of Systems and Cybernetics about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

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Kenneth Sayre, “Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind” (Routledge, 2015)

Kenneth Sayre, “Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind” (Routledge, 2015)

The cybernetics community owes a great debt of thanks to the editors of Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Mind s... Read more

21 Jun 2018

1hr 19mins

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Christine L. Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” (MIT Press, 2015)

Christine L. Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” (MIT Press, 2015)

Social media and digital technology now allow researchers to collect vast amounts of a variety data quickly. This so-cal... Read more

20 Apr 2015

37mins

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Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families" (Norton, 2019)

Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families" (Norton, 2019)

A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bow... Read more

4 Jul 2019

53mins

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Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Hallam Stevens‘s new book is a rich and fascinating ethnographic and historical account of the transformations wrought b... Read more

31 Jan 2014

1hr 16mins

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Richard S. Marken and Timothy A. Carey, “Controlling People” (Australian Academic Press, 2015)

Richard S. Marken and Timothy A. Carey, “Controlling People” (Australian Academic Press, 2015)

The word “control”, with its seemingly instantaneous mental associations with forms of top-down oppression, is one that ... Read more

4 May 2018

1hr 11mins

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Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)

Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)

The work of polymath Gregory Bateson has long been the road to cybernetics travelled by those approaching this trans-dis... Read more

4 Oct 2018

1hr 4mins

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Raul Espejo, "Cybernetics and Systems: Social and Business Decisions" (Routledge, 2019)

Raul Espejo, "Cybernetics and Systems: Social and Business Decisions" (Routledge, 2019)

Regular listeners of this podcast will, no doubt, be familiar with the name of Raul Espejo, former Director of Operation... Read more

10 May 2019

1hr 10mins

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George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton, "Principles of Systems Science" (Springer Verlag, 2015)

George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton, "Principles of Systems Science" (Springer Verlag, 2015)

Of the many barriers to a more robust presence for systems approaches in the academy, the relative scarcity of sufficien... Read more

2 Jan 2019

1hr 6mins

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Pamela Buckle Henning, "A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice" (Springer, 2017)

Pamela Buckle Henning, "A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice" (Springer, 2017)

Like a number of the books discussed on this podcast, A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice (Spri... Read more

20 Mar 2019

57mins

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Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014)

Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014)

The second half of the twentieth century saw a radical transformation in approaches to recording and displaying informat... Read more

9 Mar 2015

1hr 15mins

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Eden Medina, “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile” (MIT Press, 2011)

Eden Medina, “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile” (MIT Press, 2011)

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the hi... Read more

1 Jun 2018

1hr 5mins

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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your atte... Read more

6 Dec 2018

1hr 4mins

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Marcin Milkowski, “Explaining the Computational Mind” (MIT Press, 2013)

Marcin Milkowski, “Explaining the Computational Mind” (MIT Press, 2013)

The computational theory of mind has its roots in Alan Turing’s development of the basic ideas behind computer programmi... Read more

15 Jul 2014

1hr 7mins

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Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)

Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)

By now it is incontrovertible that new technology has had an effect on how regular people get information. Whether in th... Read more

15 Nov 2015

38mins

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Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Springer Verlag, 2014)

Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Springer Verlag, 2014)

In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if ... Read more

4 Feb 2019

1hr 4mins

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Christopher Vitale, “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zero Books, 2014)

Christopher Vitale, “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zero Books, 2014)

Networks seem to be the dominant metaphor for contemporary society. In Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hy... Read more

12 Aug 2015

43mins

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Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)

Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we des... Read more

27 Feb 2018

24mins

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Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organiz... Read more

24 Dec 2014

52mins

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Hugh F. Cline, “Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation” (Routledge, 2014)

Hugh F. Cline, “Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation” (Routledge, 2014)

There is no doubt that innovations in technology have had, and are having, a significant impact on society, changing the... Read more

9 Oct 2014

42mins

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Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)

Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)

In his new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity (Simon & Schuster, 20... Read more

4 Oct 2018

1hr 13mins

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