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Systems and Cybernetics
Interviews with scholars of systems and cybernetics about their new books.
October 11, 2025
Multisolving
Now, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin has dedicated her career to the theory and practice of creating change in complex systems. In 2021, she founded and is curren…
October 2, 2025
Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
When does comedy become more than a laugh? Ben Mangrum of MIT joins RtB to discuss The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and L…
May 31, 2025
Inside the Competitor's Mindset
Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success (MIT Press, 2023) offers a roadmap to help leaders p…
January 8, 2025
Mixed Signals
In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intellige…
January 20, 2024
Systems Mapping
There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding o…
January 5, 2024
The Human Network
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson,…
November 3, 2023
Ready for Anything
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 first episod…
August 8, 2023
Wallerstein 2.0
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of Wallerste…
July 26, 2023
The Science of Science
Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. A…
June 23, 2023
The Others Within Us
Today I interview Bob Falconer about his new book, The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession (Great Mystery Pr…
May 16, 2023
Think Tank Aesthetics
In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), disting…
April 3, 2023
Control Through Communication
JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies at MIT’…
March 22, 2023
Time Patterns in Big History
There is the common saying, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Are there any discernible patterns in history, and if so, what are t…
March 2, 2023
What Algorithms Want
In this episode Chris Gondek interviews Ed Finn, author of the new book What Algorithms Want. Tune in for an interesting discussion on algorithm disco…
February 25, 2023
Code
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, a…
January 29, 2023
Design Journeys Through Complex Systems
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 face at e…
October 10, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political sc…
September 12, 2022
Systems Inspired Leadership
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 theme…
August 17, 2022
Impact Networks
I recently caught up with the very busy David Erlichman, co-founder and coordinator of the Converge network (www.converge.net), about his fantastic bo…
July 25, 2022
Indirect Work
I recently got a chance to talk to Carol Sanford about her newest book Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Instit…