Appendix. Stafford Beer anthology – contents

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(2010), "Appendix. Stafford Beer anthology – contents", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2010.06739aab.003

Appendix. Stafford Beer anthology – contents

Article Type: Communications and forum From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 1

Foreword by Brian Eno

Maths Created (1969)Laws of Anarchy (1975)Cybernetics of Humankind (1976)Requisite Ross (1976)An open letter to Heinz von Foerster (1977)Strength (1978)Preface to Autopoiesis: the Organization of the Living (1980)I said you are gods (1980)The will of the people (1982)A reply to Ulrich’s Critique of Pure Cybernetic Reason (1983)Questions of Quest (1983)The viable system model (1984)Metacomment (1986)Recursions of power (1986)The identity of organizations (1989)“I am the emperor and I want dumplings” (1989)On suicidal rabbits: a relativity of systems (1990)May the whole earth be happy (1994)A personal reflection on the nature of the Stafford Beer collection (1996)The culpabliss error: a calculus of ethics for a systemic world (1996)The preposterous inference (1984)Let us now praise famous men – and women too (1998)Think Before you Think: Learning an Outlook (unfinished at time of death)Selected poetry

Appendices by David Whittaker

1. 1.

   Threads From a Life: a Narrative Chronology.

2. 2.

   The Chilean Project.

3. 3.

   Cybernetics in a Nutshell.

Bibliography and Further Reading

May 2009 – contents may vary slightly in finished book.