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Tribute to Stafford Beer by Raul Espejo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tribute to Stafford Beer about?

This paper explores the history of Stafford Beer’s work in management cybernetics, from his early conception and simulation of an adaptive automatic factory and associated experimentation in biological computing, through the development of the Viable System Model and the Team Syntegrity technique for discussion and planning. It also pursues Beer into the fields of micro- and macropolitics and spirituality. The aim is to show that all of Beer’s projects can be understood as specific instantiations and workings out of a cybernetic ontology of unknowability and becoming: a stance that recognises that the world can always surprise us and that we can never dominate it through knowledge. The thrust of Beer’s work was, thus, to construct systems that could adapt performatively to environments they could not fully control.

Who reads Tribute to Stafford Beer?

Author

Raul Espejo

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780861769407

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Engineering, Management