CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING

A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics & Cyber-Semiotics

Volume 3 No.1 1995

Contents

Søren Brier: Foreword

Søren Brier: Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and sign games in bio-semiotics (abstract)

Jesper Hoffmeyer: The swarming cyberspace of the body (abstract)

Lawrence S. Bale: Gregory Bateson, Cybernetics, and the Social/behavioral Sciences (abstract)

Praxis

Ranulph Glanville: A (Cybernetic) Musing: Control 1 (fulltext)

Book Reviews

Poems by Lawrence Bale

BIOSPHERE

at the thresholds of our knowing
fleeting impressions of life's elegant orchestration
in ascending and descending, spiral staircases
organic imprints
in a formal minuet of recognition,
dancing tracers, convergent, colliding, and merging
abstract . . .
information, compared and combined
unleashing and preserving life's morphogenesis . . .
concurently held with-in natural history's uncanny wisdom
and knowing, always within time
a slide-rule screw coiling up on its side
a sidewinder biting its tail
contracting, expanding
shedding its skin
in the nick of time, turning in upon itself
spnning
ball of smoke
sphere of earth and water
our planetary household
the ecomind . . .

Graphics by Bruno Kjær


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