THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like

What is capital M Modern science? How have humans cooked it up? What is cybernetics? And how are they different? Dr. Andy Pickering ties together western traditions of binary thinking with modern science and discusses them in comparison with cybernetics and its complimentary, pluralistic eastern philosophies that he argues allow for a more true account of what the world is really like. Cybernetics reveals the world as it changes through time rather than fits it to a formula that humans make for it, which Andy explains has political implications that defy concepts like imperialism and scientific determinism. It’s kinda like the counter culture of science, where Modern science is the mainstream. A longer version of this episode aired on RADEQ radio in London, July 21, 2012. // Andrew Pickering is internationally known as a leader in the field of science and technology studies. Pickering has held fellowships at MIT, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Princeton University, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and, most recently, Institutes for Advanced Study at the Universities of Durham and Konstanz. He teaches now at the University of Exeter. He has written on topics as diverse as post-World War II particle physics; mathematics, science and industry in the 19th-century; and science, technology and warfare in and since WWII. His most recent work has focussed on the history of cybernetics in Britain, and his latest book, ‘The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future’ was published in 2010. The book analyses cybernetics as a distinctive form of life spanning brain science, psychiatry, robotics, the theory of complex systems, management, politics, the arts, education, spirituality and the 1960s counterculture, and argues that cybernetics offers a promising alternative to currently hegemonic cultural formations.

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THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like is an episode from The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org) by Britt Wray.

This episode is 22:22 long.

This episode was published on Jan 23, 2013.

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