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  "the science and art of understanding"... - Humberto Maturana
  "interfaces hard competence with the hard problems of the soft sciences" - Heinz von Foerster
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Patterns
The ASC Newsletter

 
LAST UPDATE: 13 January 2009

 
 
BACKGROUND
   
Patterns originated as a bimonthly newsletter supported by the Systems Thinking and Chaos Theory Network (STCT).

Effective with 2007, Patterns became the newsletter of the American Society for Cybernetics.

Patterns includes articles, interviews, book reviews, exchange of ideas and information not found in other journals.

ASC members receive Patterns as a benefit of their ASC membership.

The editor is Barbara Dawes Vogl (bdawesvogl@yahoo.com)
 

AVAILABLE ISSUES
Winter 2007  
  • Dancing with Demons
  • From the Editor
  • Quantum Comedy
  • Book Review.
  • American Society for Cybernetics News

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Spring/Summer 2007  
  • Education as a Way of Listening
  • Cybernetics at Illinois
  • An Unfinished Revolution
  • Brief History of the BCL.
  • The Biological Computer Lab
  • The ASC Conference
  • Reflections on Now Activism
  • Definition of Cybernetics
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Fall 2007  
  • From the Editor
  • The Battle of The Bulge The Obesity Epidemic as a Pathogenic System
  • Towards a Future We Desire?
  • The Cybernetics of Sanity
  • Paskian Art Research
  • ... and more ...
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Winter 2008  
  • From the Editor
  • Spirituality and Cybernetics: A Conversation with Rev. Deborah L. Johnson
  • Book Review (by Frank Galuszka): Portrait of Her
  • Science Creating Artificial Life? (Interview with Craig Venter)
  • Evolving Perspectives
  • ... and more ...
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Spring 2008  
  • From the Editor
  • How Can We Trust Each Other?
  • What's On My Mind (by Mary Catherine Bateson)
  • Embodying Change (Conversation with Rev. Deborah L. Johnson, Part 2)
  • Heinz the Third (Lucas Pawlik's report on the 3rd HvF Conference)
  • Gordon Pask (Report on 'Pask Present' Exhibition, etc.)
  • Embodied Dialog
  • ... and more ...
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Fall 2008  
  • From the Editors
  • Onion Rings You Cannot See and a Theremin I Cannot Play (by Thomas Fischer)
  • Passage Works (article review and commentary by Anne Adams)
  • Education: The Transformation of Living Together (excerpts from interview with Humberto Maturana)
  • News and Announcements (letter from ASC VP Ranulph Glanville)
  • ... and more ...
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LAST UPDATE
13 January 2009
 
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