NB Systems & Cybernetics

Fragmentation of local and global societies is escalating, and this is aggravating vicious cycles. SYSTEMS THINKING for a TURBULENT WORLD introduces us to concepts new to systems thinking that integrate systems thinking and futures thinking. Learn more ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/anthony-hodgso…

Have you written a new book on #Systems and #Cybernetics? Want to appear on the @NewBooksSystems #podcast? Pitch us at the link below and the producers at the @NewBooksNetwork will try to match you up with an NBN podcast host in your research field! newbooksnetwork.com/publicize-your…

🎙️@dreugenioduarte interviews Michael E. Kerr, author of BOWEN THEORY'S SECRETS (@wwnorton). Learn more about the revolutionary ideas of family #systems theory and Murray Bowen’s journey from curious psychiatry resident to household name on the #podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/michael-e-kerr…

Nicholas Shea's REPRESENTATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (@OUPPhilosophy) integrates two components--task functions & exploitable relations--into a pluralist view called Varitel Semantics. Shea defends this account against competitor theories on the podcast ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/nicholas-shea-…

.@bcantrell has co-edited CODIFY (@RoutLandscape) w/Adam Mekies. 🎙️Listen in as he joins Tricia Keffer to discuss this assemblage of essays that draws on case studies, history, and theory examine the role of computational tools in #LandscapeArchitecture. newbooksnetwork.com/bradley-cantre…

Esteemed #systems thinker & @WOSC_ president Raul Espejo joins us in his role as co-editor of the CYBERNETICS & SYSTEMS (@routledgebooks). Listen in as he tells us about this collection of extended abstracts & mini-papers from the WOSC's 2017 Congress ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/raul-espejo-cy…

Covering such topics as qubits, entanglement & quantum teleportation, QUANTUM COMPUTING FOR EVERYONE (@mitpress) is an elegantly simple intro to a field that futurists say could usher in a computing revolution. Chris Bernhardt fills us in on the podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/chris-bernhard…

How does one conduct research on #systemic phenomena? For students & experts alike, A GUIDE TO SYSTEMS RESEARCH takes us thru' structuring, taking action, communicating & assessing the impact of systems research. Co-editor Pamela Buckle Henning joins us👇 newbooksnetwork.com/pamela-buckle-…

Is it possible to establish ethical first principles for the design of social systems? SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND DESIGN offers an overview of the most progressive thinking in the #systems field. Check out the #podcast as editor Gary Metcalf joins Tom Scholte ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/gary-metcalf-s…

Grounded in the traditional scientific method, PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE guides us through crucial systemic topics such as notions of system boundary, dynamics, emergence, complexity & adaptation. Co-author George Mobus joins Tom Scholte👇#cybernetics newbooksnetwork.com/george-e-mobus…

.@RobertTalisse has Carrie Figdor on the show to discuss PIECES OF MIND (@OUPPhilosophy), her defense of Literalism, the view that in scientific contexts, the attribution of psychological states & capacities to nonhuman systems should be taken literally. newbooksnetwork.com/carrie-figdor-…

In DOING RESEARCH ON PURPOSE, Richard S. Marken traces not only the steadily accruing empirical validation of the Perceptual Control Theory of human behavior, but also the evolution of a new methodology for experimental #psychology. Learn more ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/richard-s-mark…

A TRANSDIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO CBT USING METHOD OF LEVELS THERAPY (@routledgebooks) outlines a growing transdiagnostic conception of mental distress that is grounded in #cybernetics & is gaining ever more robust empirical support every year. Learn more 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/warren-mansell…

Peter Harries-Jones has continued his expert analysis of Gregory Bateman's work. UPSIDE-DOWN GODS (@fordhampress) outlines the totality of Bateson’s corpus while drawing on a wide variety of sources including personal correspondence. Learn more 👇 #ReadUP newbooksnetwork.com/peter-harries-…

In THE FOURTH AGE (@simonschuster), futurist @byronreese identifies 3 pivotal moments in the history of technology and explains how we are now on the doorstep of a fourth change ushered in by #AI & #robotics. Don't miss his interview w/@CarrieLynnLand 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/byron-reese-th…

Albert & Karl Müller recorded a 7-day intellectual dance with #cybernetics master Heinz von Foerster, structured it to parallel the Old Testament creation story & published it as THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH HAS NO NAME (@FordhamPress). Learn more 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/albert-muller-…

New Books in #Systems & #Cybernetics is now available on Google Play! Subscribe: play.google.com/music/m/Iscbml…

Author Rob Dekkers of the University of Glasgow talks about his Springer book, “Applied Systems Theory” on the @NewBooksNetwork podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/rob-dekkers-ap….

Rob Dekkers joins us. His APPLIED SYSTEMS THEORY (@springerpub) offers #systems practitioners new techniques for managing complex human activity systems in an era where the margins for unintended consequences are shrinking at a seemingly exponential rate. newbooksnetwork.com/rob-dekkers-ap…

Listen to @ChrisClearfield and @AndrasTilcsik discuss Meltdown with @NewBooksNetwork ow.ly/4BlM30lcDbr