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Claus Pias on First-Order Cybernetics

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Claus Pias, First-Order Cybernetics, German Media Theory

The complete transactions of the Macys Conferences on Cybernetics, held between 1946 and 1953, were recently (2015) edited by Claus Pias and published in English and German. Pias discusses the importance of first-order cybernetics in the post-Second World War history of ideas in his introductory essay called “The Age of Cybernetics,” which appears at the beginning of the volume.