CHK Heinz von Foerster - I front cover and contents

BOOK: CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING - A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics
10, No. 3-4, 2003
HEINZ VON FOERSTER [1911-2002]
CONTENTS (sumário)
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Foreword
The Oroborous and the Glass Bead Game
Soren Brier and Ranulph Glanville
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Articles
Bernhard Poerksen: "At each and every moment, I can decide who I am"
Heinz von Foerster and Karl H. Müller: Action without Utility. An Immodest Proposal for the Cognitive Foundations of Behavior
Monika Bröcker: Between the lines - The part-of-the-world-position of Heinz von Foerster
Albert Müller: Heinz von Foerster's Archives
Louis H. Kauffman: Eigenforms - Objects as Tokens for Eigenbehaviors
Ranulph Glanville: Machines of Wonder and Elephants that Float through Air
Marcelo Pakman: Elements for a Foersteriam Poetics in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Frederick Steier and Jane Jorgenson: Ethics and Aesthetics of Observing Frames
Bernard Scott: "Heinz von Foerster - An Appreciation" (Revisited)
Gerard de Zeeuw: Discovering Social Knowledge
Stuart Umpleby: Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment
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ASC Pages
Pille Bunnell: Reflections on the Phrase "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
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Column
Ranulph Glanville: A (Cybernetic) Musing - In Praise of Buffers
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Book Reviews
by Ole Thyssen and Ranulph Glanville
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Personal Tributes
by Frank Galuszka (p. 189), Klaus Krippendorff (p. 195), Cornelia Bessie (p. 197), Tom von Foerster (p.202) and Andy von Foerster (p. 204)
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The artists are Frank Galuszka and Christina Waters, the poet is Bill Schiffer