Tribute to Stafford Beer / Raul Espejo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Espejo, Raul.

Series:

Kybernetes ; v. 33, no. 3/4.

Kybernetes. no. 3/4 ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybernetics.

Systems engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England : Emerald Group Publishing, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper explores the history of Stafford Beer's work in management cybernetics, from his early conception and simulation of an adaptive automatic factory and associated experimentation in biological computing, through the development of the Viable System Model and the Team Syntegrity technique for discussion and planning. It also pursues Beer into the fields of micro- and macropolitics and spirituality. The aim is to show that all of Beer's projects can be understood as specific instantiations and workings out of a cybernetic ontology of unknowability and becoming: a stance that recognises

Contents:

CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Abstracts; Preface; Foreword; PART I; The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics; Sequences of failure in complex socio-technical systems; The market economy unchecked; Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry; PART II; City planning; The role of information and models in regulating complex commercial systems; A self-organizing network for the systems community; PART III; Observing experiences with the VSM; Viability versus tribalism; Observations on the development of cybernetic ideas in Colombia; Heinz and Stafford; PART IV

The footprint of complexity: the embodiment of social systemsA Latino American Requiem for Stafford Beer; Fighting for science; Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy; PART V; Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning; World in Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come; Knowing Norbert; Man in a garrulous silence; Ten pints of Beer; A filigree friendship; What is cybernetics?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-51579-1

9786610515790

1-84544-390-X

OCLC:

70738219