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Interviews with Scholars of Systems and Cybernetics about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics
Now, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin has dedicated her career to the theory and practice of creating change in complex systems. In 2021, she founded and...
When does comedy become more than a laugh? Ben Mangrum of MIT joins RtB to discuss his new book, The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learne...
Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success (MIT Press, 2023) offers a roadmap to help...
In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial...
There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory under...
Recently I had a chance to sit down for a long overdue chat with Anthony (Tony) Hodgson. When we last spoke it happened to be for my very fi...
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org...
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of...
Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers In...
Today I interview Bob Falconer about his new book, The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession (Great...
In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020...
JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studi...
There is the common saying, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Are there any discernible patterns in history, and if so,...
In this episode Chris Gondek interviews Ed Finn, author of the new book What Algorithms Want. Tune in for an interesting discussion on algor...
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, li...
As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we...
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal pol...
International and transnational historiography has given us vivid glimpses of the development and impact of cybernetics on a national scale...
Listeners who have tuned in to my most recent episodes here on Systems and Cybernetics will be familiar with what seems be a current running...
I recently caught up with the very busy David Erlichman, co-founder and coordinator of the Converge network (www.converge.net), about his fa...
I recently got a chance to talk to Carol Sanford about her newest book Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communiti...
In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media an...
Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of...
Is a tree nothing but its material makeup, or does reality include trees above and beyond what they are made of? How about consciousness – n...
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Brea...
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immu...
So what is metamodernity you may ask, and what does it have to do with systems thinking and cybernetics? Well, I recently had a chance to fi...
The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (MIT Press, 2021) is a laboratory study that investigates how algo...
In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Sean Kelly, professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Inst...
Welcome to the first Systems and Cybernetics episode of 2022! After a short break over the holidays to rest and spend time with family (and,...
Today I talked to Helga Nowotny about her new book In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (Polity, 2021). One...
A true understanding of the pervasive role of software in the world demands an awareness of the volume and variety of real-world software fa...
In this episode of Systems and Cybernetics I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jeremy Lent, talking with him about his newest book T...
From The Center for Humans and Nature, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a five-volume collection of essays, interviews, poetry,...
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transfo...
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally...
Neoclassical economic theory shows that under the right conditions, prices alone can guide markets to efficient outcomes. But what if it it’...
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth...
In this episode I am in conversation with artist and author Vanilla Beer about her 2019 book Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cyberne...
Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James L...
In this episode I spoke with Magnus Ramage, co-author of Systems Thinkers (Springer, 2020). This second edition provides an update to Ramage...
On this episode, we speak with Ragav Rajagopalan about his book, Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Anal...
While i find it pretty easy to recognize when i'm reading articles in complexity science, i've never been satisfied by definitions of comple...
Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with approp...
Regular listeners to this podcast will be well aware of my strong conviction that the Perceptual Control Theory initially formulated by Will...
Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed...
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World...
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O...
For over a century, creativity has unfolded as a valuable field of knowledge. Emerging from disciplines like psychology, management and educ...
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2020) is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems...