Cybernetic Complex Lexicon

Cybernetic Complex Lexicon

Names Ross Ashby Julian H. Bigelow Vannevar Bush Warren S. McCulluch Stafford Beer Gregory Bateson Stewart Brand Charles Darwin Lawrence K. Frank Georges Theodule Guilbaud Molly Harrower David Hagelbarger (SEER) Lawrence Kubie Margaret Mead Benoit Mandelbrot Humberto Matuurana Marcuse Warran McCulluch Claude E. Shannon Leonard J. Savage Alan Turing Norbert Weiner Arturo Rosenblueth Gordon Pask Francisco Verela Gray Walter John Von Neumann Oswald Veblen Warren Weaver Post/ Jean Baudrillard Deleuze & Guattari Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Jacques Lacan Martin Heidegger Jean Paul Sartre Henri Lefebvre /structuralism Roland Barthes Roman Jakobson Levi-Strauss Pre/ Babbage Boole Leibniz Carl Schmitt Ferdinand Saussure

Machines AA Predictor (Wiener) Bug (Wiener) Cybersyn (Beer) Colloquy of Mobiles (Pask)
Electromechanical Differential Analyser (Bush)
Musicolour (Pask) Flicker- Dream Machine (Ashby-Gysin) Turtle (Ashby) Rat Maze (Shannon) Colossus Giroscope Voder Vocoder SEquence Extracting Robot (SEER) Selectron (1943) Computron (1943)

Research Cultures Olipou Group Le College de ‘Pataphysics MIT Bell Labs Macy Conferences (1946-1953) Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes (New York)
The Whole Earth Catalogue
Radical Software
Homebrew Software
New School for Social Research (New York) CoEvolutionary Quarterly Research Laboratory of Electronics (MIT) Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory (Harvard) Videofreek

Ballistics Research Laboratory (MIT) University in Exile (1933)

Institutions

The Rockefeller Foundation United Nations UNESCO’s ’s International Council of Social Sciences Center for International Study (CENIS — MIT-CIA ) RAND Corporationdd National Research Council

Key Terms

Feedback chance ecology co-ecology homeostasis circuits games probability entropy Self-performance Participatory surveillance

Bibliography