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Making an issue to keep track of films/videos we've brought up in conversations. Feel free to reply with more!
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Adam Curtis (recommended by @frnsys)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
putting complex systems modeling into the hands of more people
Hey everyone, wanted to start listing some suggestions for readings. Please add yours below and we can filter it down. Or if anyone has a theme they'd like to lead with, feel free!
At one point we we're talking (@frnsys?) about the transition from continuous (classical physics) to discrete (quantum) and it reminded me of another good collection, particularly the essay "the genesis of the quantum theory in the period 1913-1927 " that talks about a paradigm shift (quantum leap :) ) in thinking that was necessary to go from continous to discrete models. It's more "new media" focused but some of the foundational stuff in the beginning is really good and relevant.
The book + the TOC:
Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation
Table of Contents:
Representation: Photography and after.
Theory.
Media/Identity/Culture.
Nick Srnicek, lays out the "crisis of representation" problem
https://medium.com/after-us/navigating-neoliberalism-f9fae2405488#.kd4aliz0r
When I mentioned "doing cybernetics on myself"
I was thinking of times where I change my environment to try to influence my behavior - instead of viewing my self as a static entity, considering my self and my environment interacting as a system
some examples:
Maybe we could talk about how people use systems in their lives? Hmm what readings could be relevant
Also definitely some gray area on what is a system (could I analyze all my relations with my environment as a system?)... but my initial feeling is that some types of logic I employ is more at a systems level (finding a gym buddy so that I go to the gym more) and some is more one-off (deciding to read a book because the cover looks interesting)
not sure if there are also other directions to take "Cybernetics And Me" but this is the angle I was thinking about
Rittel & Webber, defines "wicked" problems
http://www.uctc.net/mwebber/Rittel+Webber+Dilemmas+General_Theory_of_Planning.pdf
John Platt, applies cybernetic concepts (e.g. feedback) to wicked problems
Dumping some possibilities for future sessions...if we get enough maybe we can be deliberate about ordering them?
In the wake of @irealva leaving NYC, I think it'd be great to figure out how we might all be able to sync learnings across time and space!
@frnsys mentioned a while back that we could simply create a branch and instantiate a new naming scheme to accomodate for group branches, or other reconfigurations like a Cybernetics Club made entirely in spanish or chinese.
If anyone has any cool ideas re: this, all help is welcome! Whatever we decide to use here may be of use for other Learning Gardens groups, as we've recently come up against the idea of group continuity, and whether or not it should be guided or let free.
James C. Scott, analysis of the authoritarian approach to complex problems
https://libcom.org/files/Seeing%20Like%20a%20State%20-%20James%20C.%20Scott.pdf
the "observer effect" of wicked problems is a very old concept
an ostensibly more democratic/participative approach to complex problems
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/
dump all your cybernetics-y games here!
Hi all! @frnsys invited me to this reading group - this looks really interesting.
Question - I do see dates, but what's the time/location for the upcoming meeting?
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