Uploaded: December 2018, Issue 34
Keywords:
Judy Lombardi, American Society for Cybernetics, Cybernetics, Circularity Dynamic Feedback, Mary Catherine Bateson, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Cultures, Upbringing, Adult Character, breastfeeding, Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Reflection, Interaction, Gordon Pask, Conversation Theory, Organizational Closure, Informational Openness, Evolution, Ernst von Glasersfeld, First-Order Cybernetics, Mechanisms of Control, Second-Order Cybernetics, Observer, Humberto Maturana, Biology of Love, Acting, Learning, Understanding, Circularity, Cybernetic Awareness, Responsibility, Amos Wilson, Reductionism, Interdependence, Retroactive Corrections, Objectivity, Multiverse, Larry Richards, Anticommunication Imperative, Asychronicity, Paradoxical Invitations, Piaget, Self-Organization Viability Equilibrium, Heinz von Foerster, Observing Systems, Observed Systems, Self-Organization, Claude Shannon, Information Age, Conversation Age, Metaphors, Self-Reference, False Statements, Present, Past, Future, Constraints, Metalogue, What is An Instict?
Keywords:
Mary Catherine Bateson, Judy Lombardi, American Society for Cybernetics, Cybernetics, Influence of Cybernetics, Academia, Disciplines, Individualism, Interdependence, Interconnectedness, Nation-State, Colonialism, Inter-National Connections, Globalization, Imperfect Democratic System, Capitalism, Corruption, Middle East, Internet, Education..
Judy Lombardi
Professor of sociology who dealt with "social" documentaries. Her latest video, "Living Cybernetics," is a film that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Society for Government.
Mary Catherine Bateson
American writer and anthropologist. A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Gregory Bateson. She is a well-known author in her field with many published monographs. He has taught at Harvard, Amsterdam and George Mason University, among others.
Abstract - Video 1
Judy Lombardi's "Living Cybernetics" is an exciting and well-made, two hour documentary about cybernetics and the American Society for Cybernetics, which celebrated 50 years of existence in 2014.
In this part of issue 34, the one hour of the original video is presented, edited by Fany Triantafillou. Also, some short video clips have been extracted and put in other parts of Metalogos depending on the subject.
Abstract - Video 2
Cybernetics of the Future, This is the introduction of Mary Catherine Bateson to the Cybernetics in the Future workshop, held at the conference of the American Society for Cybernetics at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in 2014. The workshop was organized by Dai Griffiths and Robert Martin. Video by Judy Lombardi. Courtesy of ASC.
Mary Catherine Bateson with her own warm and amiable style speaks about Cybernetics. Starting from the baby's cot or eventhe womb and arriving at the conflict in the Middle East, once more she presents the logic of separateness and antagonism and the logic of symbiosis and collaboration.
Introduction to the Future Workshop at ASC's Congress, 2014. Workshop coordinators: Dai Griffiths & Robert Martin. Video: Judy Lombardi.
Video editing and subtitling: Fany Triantafillou.
Many thanks to the ASC for honoring Metalogos by giving the necessary permission.