<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to share this conference link with you!</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Vegur,sans-serif;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Sixth AASRC 2013 INTERNATIONAL Conference On “Innovative Trends in Information Studies, Technologies, Computing and Engineering to tackle A Competitive Global Environment” (ITITCE – 2013) 30 – 31 May 2013 </span><span style="font-family:Vegur,sans-serif;line-height:48px;text-transform:uppercase">ISTANBUL, TURKEY</span><span style="font-family:Vegur,sans-serif;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Vegur,sans-serif;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sponsored by: International Certification Council</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Vegur,sans-serif;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Organized by: American Academic & Scholarly Research Center</span></div>
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM, José María Díaz Nafría <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diaz-naf@hm.edu" target="_blank">diaz-naf@hm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
... As I pointed out in a previous post, I think that's to see the cybernetic movement in a very restricted manner. I know very bad cases of cybernetician working in a very simplistic, old-fashion manner -even very close to me-, people who even think the whole knowledge had to be adapted to their short-seeing -discounting most of the mathematical findings of the xx century, as mere noise... But as I saw in the Heinz von Foerster 100 - Self-organisation and Emergence - Conference 2011, the cybernetic movement -in a broad sense- is of course working on Self-organisation and Emergence which is completely coherent to what has been named 2nd order cybernetics since the 1970s... If both are updated, complex theory, cybernetics, as well as systems science altogether could be working in a joint manner. As far as I have seen often there's just terminological differences...<div>
<br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>José María<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/25 Bob Logan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:logan@physics.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">logan@physics.utoronto.ca</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Petter - I agree with you that complexity theory with its feed forward feature is the natural heir to cybernetics where the focus was primarily on positive and negative feedback. Complexity theory and emergence entails self-organization or feedforward and has a teleological component to it. The goal of the emergent system is the system itself. Stafford Beer who I had the good fortune to work with when he lived in Toronto at the end of his life made use of feed forward in his management cybernetics approach. The recent work of Deacon (Incomplete Nature) and Ulanowicz (A Third Window) focuses on teleology and hence feedforward. Thanks for your post - with kind regards - Bob Logan<div>
<br></div><div><div><div> <br><div><div>On 2013-01-24, at 8:59 AM, Petter Törnberg wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would second the point that the cybernetics movement was not necessarily socialist. It did however have some interesting leftist tendencies, likely due to its obvious potential on this account. For example, Stafford Beers involvement in organizing Allende's Chile in project Cybersyn (do read Eden Medina's excellent account of this fascinating history: <i>Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile, </i>2011), which illustrates how attempts were made to use cybernetics thinking to organize the future socialist society. </div>
<div><br><div><div>But I would furthermore question the notion that linear programming is what we should look upon as the contemporary heritage of cybernetics; instead, I would see Complexity Theory as its natural heir. In my view, Complexity Theory - while of course similarly forged in the greedy flame of capitalism - holds the same potential for thinking about the organizing and transition to an alternative society. </div>
<div>There is actually a current EU project/coordination action, called INSITE (<a href="http://www.insiteproject.org/" target="_blank">www.insiteproject.org</a>), that works with such a development in mind. The project departs from an explicitly complexity theory-based criticism of the capitalist organization of innovation and technological development, and envisions alternative ways to organize innovation and production through new decentralized and democratic institutions. Interestingly, the project is strongly interdisciplinary and includes many mathematicians and physicists. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This, in my mind, illustrates that the last hope of a decent use of cybernetics is yet to be extinguished. </div><div><br></div><div><br>Kind Regards</div><div>--</div><div>Petter Törnberg</div><div>PhD student in Complex Systems </div>
<div>at Chalmers University of Technology</div></div></div><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Bob Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob@dustormagic.net" target="_blank">bob@dustormagic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear listmembers,<br>
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Linear programming (and other mathematical/cybernetic planning techniques) were seen by many people in the 1940s and 1950s as heralding the end of markets, as they offered radically more efficient means of distribution.<br>
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Instead, I get the impression these techniques ended up helping Big Capital to push markets to new limits, via Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) apps like SAP.<br>
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Certainly, I understand that people trained in cybernetics and OR during the 1960s increasingly found they could only get work in corporate situations, where it was impossible to work on 'whole systems' in the proper, cybernetic sense.<br>
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And linear programming seems to be the basis of the 'combinatorial auction' systems that have been so very profitably developed for handling sell-offs of public assets (UK buses in 1995, followed by the auctions for 3G and now 4G bandwidth, and I guess auctions for airline routes ... and maybe finding further, similar markets in countries that come under IMF privatisation-orders).<br>
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If this is the case then there's a ginormously bitter irony here: what should have led to an age of low-impact abundance ended up being a power-tool for the manufacture of high-impact scarcity.<br>
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Has anyone researched this, or can anyone point me in the direction of someone who has? Do you think the above is broadly correct?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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