New section: July 2023

See also the sections related to Network Theory, Complexity, and Mutual Coordination.

Generalities

1. Cybernetic State
2. Cybernetics
3. Cybernetics and Governance
4. Cybernetics Movement

Typology

1. Second Order Cybernetics
2. Fourth Order Cybernetics

Topics

History

1. Cybernetics History
2. ​Stafford Beer on the History and Origins of Cybernetics

Critiques

1. Cybernetics as an Antihumanism

Cybernetics and the Commons

1. Common Cybernetics
2. Cybernetics of the Commons
3. Cybernetics Valuable to the Commons and for Understanding AI

Cybernetics and Production

1. Cybernetic Planning
2. Cybernetic Production Regime
3. Cybernetic Self-Management
4. Economic and Social Cybernetics
5. Economic Cybernetics

Projects

Cybersyn in Chile

1. Cybernetics of Governance and the Cybersyn Project
2. Cybernetic Revolutionaries
3. Eden Medina on Cybernetics and Revolution
4. Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile
5. Technology, Cybernetic Revolutionaries and Politics in Allende's Chile

Activist Cybernetics

1. Cybernetic Revolution
2. Direct Technocracy
3. Neo-Cybernetic Politics
4. Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics

Socialist Cybernetics

1. Cybernetic Communism
2. Cybernetic Socialism
3. From Dot-com Capitalism to Cybernetic Communism
4. Towards a New Cybernetic Socialism
5. Paul Cockshott on the Possibilities for a New Cybernetic Socialism
6. Red Cybernetics
7. Solving the Global Crisis Requires the Approach of Economics Cybernetics
8. Towards a New Cybernetic Socialism

The Soviet Experience

1. History of Soviet Cybernetics
2. Soviet Cybernetics and Planning
3. Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism
4. Why the Soviet Union Did Not Build a Nationwide Computer Network