Volume 11, Number 3
15 July 2016
Special Issue “Varieties of Contemporary Second-Order Cybernetics”, edited by Alexander Riegler & Karl H. Müller
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Ranulph Glanville (1946–2014)
for his enormous efforts in promoting second-order cybernetics
Mapping the Varieties of Second-Order Cybernetics
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Second-Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science
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Obstacles and Opportunities in the Future of Second-Order Cybernetics and Other Compatible Methods
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Connecting Second-Order Cybernetics’ Revolution with Genetic Epistemology
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Shed the Name to find Second-Order Success: Renaming Second-Order Cybernetics to Rescue its Essence
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Second-Order Cybernetics Needs a Unifying Methodology
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Viva the Fundamental Revolution! Confessions of a Case Writer
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Author’s Response: Struggling to Define an Identity for Second-Order Cybernetics
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Cybernetics, Reflexivity and Second-Order Science
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Remarks From a Continental Philosophy Point of View
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Finally Understanding Eigenforms
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Eigenforms, Coherence, and the Imaginal
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Conserving the Disposition for Wonder
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Author’s Response: Distinction, Eigenform and the Epistemology of the Imagination
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Cybernetic Foundations for Psychology
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Wielding the Cybernetic Scythe in the Blunting Undergrowth of Psychological Confusion
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To What Extent Can Second-Order Cybernetics Be a Foundation for Psychology?
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The Importance - and the Difficulty - of Moving Beyond Linear Causality
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Obstacles to Cybernetics becoming a Conceptual Framework and Metanarrative in the Psychologies
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The Social and the Psychological: Conceptual Cybernetic Unification vs Disciplinary Analysis?
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Second Thoughts on Cybernetic Unifications
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Cybernetics and Synergetics as Foundations for Complex Approach Towards Complexities of Life
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Author’s Response: On Becoming and Being a Cybernetician
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Consciousness as Self-Description in Differences
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On the Too Often Overlooked Complexity of the Tension between Subject and Object
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Theorizing Agents: Their Games, Hermeneutical Tools and Epistemic Resources
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How Can Meaning be Grounded within a Closed Self-Referential System?
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Self-Description Alone Will not Account for Qualia
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Consciousness as Self-Description and the Inescapability of Reduction
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The Non-Relationality of Consciousness
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Design Research as a Variety of Second-Order Cybernetic Practice
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Design Cycles: Conversing with Lawrence Halprin
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What Can Cybernetics Learn from Design?
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Rigor in Research, Honesty and Values
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Digital Design Research and Second-Order Cybernetics
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Cybernetics Is the Answer, but What Was the Conversation About?
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Author’s Response: Beyond Application
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“Black Box” Theatre: Second-Order Cybernetics and Naturalism in Rehearsal and Performance
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“Truthful” Acting Emerges Through Forward Model Development
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Naturalism in Improvisation and Embodiment
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Opening the Black Box of Minds: Theatre as a Laboratory of System Unknowns
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Does Second-Order Cybernetics Provide a Framework for Theatre Studies?
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A Theatre for Exploring the Cybernetic
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The Many Varieties of Experimentation in Second-Order Cybernetics: Art, Science, Craft
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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Volume 11
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