Cybernetics Live
Tue 9th Sept 1700-1900 EcoCybernetics as a provocation to rethink – Angus Jenkinson
Cybernetics is a good name. So why the ‘rebrand’? The provocation is a set of insights into the origins and nature of cybernetics. It proposes that ecocybernetics focuses on its ontological rather than historic origins, its full scope of explanatory power, and its potential to resolve important issues facing humanity today. Feedback informing this provocation includes (positively) the nature of ecology and (negatively) the historical and biographical conditions of its first formulation by Wiener, McCulloch and co. The science is still immature, but cybernetic activity is the matrix of ecology as a living dynamic milieu. Directive activity and homeostasis existed from the beginnings of life. By contrast, design of assistive military hardware along with the invention of the computer were the prime context in the formation and specification of the discipline, but this was never all it was. To embrace the full power of cybernetics means thinking like the composite metapsychome of a recursive ecosystem. The largest such ecosystem we have is Earth in its cosmic context. The nation’s budget should be ecocybernetic in global synch.
Angus Jenkinson, FCybS, is a former Secretary of the Cybernetics Society, research professor, and advisor focusing on coherent organisations.
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