A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Auto Poiesis and Cyber-Semiotics): Gregory Bateson ... First Sentence: In the film Mindwalk, Sonja Hoffman, a physicist played by Liv ...
http://www.amazon.com/Gregory-Bateson-Cybernetics-Human-Knowing/dp/1845400321

Jenkins 1969) Systems Dynamics [SD] Forrester 1961, 1971) Cybernetics including both first order cybernetics [1 st Cyb. Wiener 1948; Ashby 1956, 1960) and second order cybernetics ...
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/9485/0

Heinz von Foerster - one of the founding fathers of cybernetics; first to study self-organization, self-reference and other circularities; creator of second-order cybernetics.
http://fusionanomaly.net/cybernetics.html

Raphael J. Becvar, Brian S. Canfield and Dorothy S. Becvar. This book presents clear and concise explications of modernism, postmodernism, first-order cybernetics, second-order ...
http://www.lovepublishing.com/catalog/group_work_36.html

Cybernetics was one of the first disciplines to undergo last century's wave of introspection that has swept (and is still sweeping) academic and other fields.
http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?SecondOrderCybernetics

Efforts to apply this homeostasis-oriented type of first-order cybernetics or systems theory to the field of the social sciences, as for example those of Parsons12), met with the ...
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/RED_FEATHER/chaos/021alienations.htm

First order Cybernetics relates to closed systems, second order includes the observer perspective and third order looks to how these co evolve.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Systems_Theory/Cybernetics

... generation thinking on cybernetics influenced first-generation thinking on design methods.[2] And second-generation design methods[3] has many parallels in second-order cybernetics ...
http://www.dubberly.com/articles/cybernetics-and-service-craft.html

Varela sums up the movement from first order cybernetics to second order cybernetics in one of von Foerster's aphorisms: "First order cybernetics:
http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/vol1/v1-1for.htm

First Sentence: Abstract: The late Chile born biologist Francisco J. Varela has been ... theory, intrinsic teleology, biological autonomy, unmarked state, second order cybernetics ...
http://www.amazon.com/Cybernetics-Human-Knowing-Second-Order-Cyber-Semiotics/dp/0907845924

11 (Re)Sensing the Observer Offering an Open Order Cybernetics Andrea Gaugusch & Bill Seaman I would say, first-order cybernetics is the cybernetics of observed systems, while ...
http://digitalmedia.risd.edu/billseaman/pdf/resensing.pdf

To me, the shift from a first-order to a second-order cybernetics signaled a shift in scientific attitude toward reality, from privileging the perspectives of detached observers ...
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/SECORDER.html

Many would accept that cybernetics has helped unify the first-order study of observed systems. In this paper, I explore ways in which second-order cybernetics may unify debates and ...
http://www.thehope.org/Bernard_Scott/Abs-Intro.html

Ethics and Second-order Cybernetics 1. We are grateful to director F. Dauzat of ... Let me first talk about Metaphysics. In order to let you see at once the delightful ambiguity that ...
http://www.imprint.co.uk/C&HK/vol1/v1-1hvf.htm

For instance, compare atypical first-order cybernetics concept such as"purpose, " (as being the equivalent of"why") with a second-order question, "What is the purpose of'purpose ...
http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/heinz/ethics.pdf

As a later development, in 1970 Heinz von Forester distinguished first and second order cybernetics: the study of observed systems and the study of observing systems.
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/spch100/11-2-cybernetics.htm

I would say, first-order cybernetics is the cybernetics of observed systems, while second-order cybernetics is the cybernetics of observing systems. (?) When taking the latter ...
http://dm.risd.edu/billseaman/textsReSensing.php

There is a generalized history circulating on the Internet and in academic papers that Gregory Bateson was so wedded to first-order cybernetics that he did not fully appreciate ...
http://www.chkjournal.org/?issue=vol_12_issue_1&article=Gregory%20Bateson2

I submit that the cybernetics of observed systems we may consider to be first-order cybernetics; while second-order cybernetics is the cybernetics of observing systems.
http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/heinz/cybernetics.pdf

When combined with an idealistic impulse, the holism associated with this 'first-order cybernetics' gravitated toward issues of a 'world system as it is' such as ecological and ...
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2001/Whitaker.htm

They wanted me to address myself to "Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics." ... Let me first talk about Metaphysics. In order to let you see at once the delightful ambiguity that ...
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html

The communications aspects of first-order cybernetics remain subjects of active theorization and analysis. The second-order cybernetics born in the late 1960's continues to ...
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/timeline.htm

Bernard Scott, April, 1996. Second Order Cybernetics as Cognitive Methodology. Encountering Cybernetics. I first encountered the idea of cybernetics in 1966 when, as an ...
http://www.thehope.org/Bernard_Scott/Cybernetics.html

defined first order cybernetics as the cybernetics of observed . systems, whereas second order cybernetics is the cybernetics of . observing systems (Von Foerster, 1979).
http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/Science_Cybernetics.txt

... bearers of the second order approach during the 1970's, such as von Foerster, Pask, and Maturana, were themselves directly involved in the development of "first order" cybernetics ...
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SECORCYB.html

In recent years the field of cybernetics has been described as consisting of two bodies of work created in two time periods: first order cybernetics from the late 1940s until ...
http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recent_papers/2001_what_comes_after_second_order_cybernetics.htm

This shift is often characterized as a transition from 'first-order cybernetics' to 'second-order cybernetics. Cybernetic descriptions of psychology, language, arts ...
http://www.pangaro.com/published/cyber-macmillan.html

New Cybernetics is a study of self-organizing systems, looking beyond the issues of the "first", "old" or "original" cybernetics and their politics and sciences of control, to the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cybernetics

The word cybernetics was first used in the context of "the study of self-governance" by Plato ... Control systems; Emergence; Learning organization; New Cybernetics; Second-order cybernetics ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics