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Articles and publications tagged Cybernetics across the Atmosphere.

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meri's missives
meri's missivesMar 21, 2026
Burnout Phase Transition
Modelling chronic stress effects on my mental health and the end of monopolies
mental healthcybernetics
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Ecosystems are smarter than we are
Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones. The quote above is from Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic…
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cyberneticsecosystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Outcome over representation
But Beer started from this realization: in a world of exceedingly complex systems, for which any representation can only be provisional, performance is what we need to care about. ( Andrew Pickering , 2010, The Cybernetic Brain ) Stafford Beer and…
aicybernetics
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comMar 20, 2025
The cybernetic equivalent of logic is oscillation
“Logic is a very elegant tool,” Bateson said, “and we’ve got a lot of mileage out of it for two thousand years or so. The trouble is, you know, when you apply it to crabs and porpoises, and butterflies and habit formation” – his voice trailed off,…
bookcybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meDec 7, 2022
A School of Cybernetics strategy meeting with ChatGPT
My first ChatGPT conversation: asking it to brainstorm strategy for the ANU School of Cybernetics. Impressive output, but we're going to need to get better at drinking from the bullshit firehose.
aicybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meOct 12, 2022
NGA Un-tour: The Hidden Gallery
An immersive cybernetic walking tour of the National Gallery of Australia after dark, co-created with BOHO Interactive and the ANU School of Cybernetics.
cybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meMar 7, 2022
Teaching the world to Cybernetics
A look at what the new Experiences Team at the ANU School of Cybernetics is building---weird, site-specific encounters with cybernetic ideas.
cybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meJan 20, 2022
Cybernetic futures explained (maybe)
Futuring works best when it's more like a radar than a lighthouse---a sense-analyse-act feedback loop, not a fixed point to steer towards.
cybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meNov 11, 2021
Livecoder-in-the-club as a system
Using cybernetics and Donella Meadows' leverage points to understand---and improve---the system of code, music and humans in a livecoding gig.
cybernetics
benswift.me
benswift.meMay 11, 2021
Moving to the School of Cybernetics
I'm leaving the ANU School of Computing for the new School of Cybernetics---here's what that means for students, colleagues and collaborators.
teachingresearch
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryJan 1, 2004
Me++: the Cyborg Self and the Networked City
cyborgwilliam-mitchell
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryJan 1, 2000
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
posthumancybernetics

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