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Systems and Cybernetics
Systems and Cybernetics
February 8, 2021
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking
Governance in a Climate Emergency
Ray Ison and Ed Straw
Hosted by Kevin Lindsay
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2020) is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking can be harnessed to effect profound, complex change.  …
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Systems and Cybernetics
January 18, 2021
Network Origins of the Global Economy
East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective
Hilton L. Root
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all stripes find …
Medicine
December 17, 2020
Unraveling
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Hosted by Claire Clark
Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling …
Systems and Cybernetics
December 16, 2020
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Framing Through Other Patterns
Nora Bateson
Hosted by Kevin Lindsay
“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.” Nora Bateson writes these words …
Systems and Cybernetics
November 25, 2020
Systems Practice
How to Act In Situations of Uncertainty and Complexity in a Climate-Change World
Ray Ison
Hosted by Tom Scholte
While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice can be somewhat harder to come by. Ray Ison …
Science, Technology, and Society
November 4, 2020
Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World
A Search for New Perspectives (Part 2)
Anthony Hodgson
Hosted by Kevin Lindsay
This is the second episode of a two-part conversation with Hodgson, and in it we pick up our conversation on anticipatory systems and the role they play in ‘decision integrity’ …
Science, Technology, and Society
October 7, 2020
Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World
A Search for New Perspectives
Anthony Hodgson
Hosted by Kevin LIndsay and Tom Scholte
In the view of Anthony Hodgson, fragmentation of local and global societies is escalating, and this is aggravating vicious cycles. To heal the rifts, Hodgson believes we need to reintroduce …
Architecture
August 20, 2020
Design Cybernetics
Navigating the New
T. Fischer and C.M. Herr
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ranulph Glanville. This brilliant …
Economics
January 21, 2020
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall
Hosted by Curiosity Daily
Safi Bahcall's Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries (St. Martin's Press, 2019) reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the …
Chinese Studies
January 2, 2020
Information Fantasies
Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China
Xiao Liu
Hosted by Tom Scholte
International and transnational historiography has given us vivid glimpses of the development and impact of cybernetics on a national scale in such countries as the Soviet Union, Chile and, of …
Anthropology
July 4, 2019
Bowen Theory’s Secrets
Revealing the Hidden Life of Families
Michael E. Kerr
Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen. He was among the first to observe families in a naturalistic …
Philosophy
June 10, 2019
Representation in Cognitive Science
Nicholas Shea
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system …
Architecture
June 4, 2019
Codify
Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture
Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex systems. Bradley Cantrell and Adam …
Science, Technology, and Society
May 10, 2019
Cybernetics and Systems
Social and Business Decisions
Raul Espejo
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Regular listeners of this podcast will, no doubt, be familiar with the name of Raul Espejo, former Director of Operations of Stafford Beer’s famed Cybersyn Project under the Chilean government …
Systems and Cybernetics
March 20, 2019
Philosophy, Processes, Practice
Philosophy, Processes, Practice
Mary C. Edson, Pamela Buckle Henning, and Sankar Shankaran
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Like a number of the books discussed on this podcast, A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice (Springer, 2017), was intended to fill gaps in a field that, through …
Anthropology
February 4, 2019
Social Systems and Design
Gary Metcalf
Hosted by Tom Scholte
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first principles” for …
Science
January 2, 2019
Principles of Systems Science
George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Of the many barriers to a more robust presence for systems approaches in the academy, the relative scarcity of sufficient introductory textbooks in the field stands out as a particular …
Psychology
November 19, 2018
Doing Research on Purpose
A Control Theory Approach to Experimental Psychology
Richard S. Marken
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Listeners familiar with our recent podcasts exploring the remarkable legacy of William T. Powers revolutionary Perceptual Control Theory of human behaviour, including its contribution to cognitive behavioural therapy through the …
Psychology
October 26, 2018
A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy
Distinctive Features
Warren Mansell, Timothy A. Carey, Sara J. Tai
Hosted by Tom Scholte
To many, the title, A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features (Routledge, 2012) , may seem incongruous with a podcast channel called "New Books in …
Anthropology
October 4, 2018
Upside-Down Gods
Gregory Bateson's World of Difference
Peter Harries-Jones
Hosted by Tom Scholte
The work of polymath Gregory Bateson has long been the road to cybernetics travelled by those approaching this trans-disciplinary field from the direction of the social sciences and even the …
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