Three shorts on the cybernetics of Gertrude Stein provoked by conversations during the New Macy Meetings in 2023. I was reminded of these shorts when Jackie ask me about Gertrude Stein during our swim time. Swimming with Stein….
Gertrude Stein the Grandmother of Cybernetics
My cybernetics. A cybernetics provoked by Margaret Mead (1968), articulated by Heinz von Foerster (1972), enacted by Herbert Brün (1975). All – a cybernetics nested in observing, autonomy, responsibility, ethics and the art of languaging. A second-cybernetics if you please. BUT (then she was somebody).
First, the cybernetics of Gertrude Stein as illustrated by her anticommunication.
Second, the phenomenal domains of human relations – the domain of explanations and the domain of experiences.
Oh yes a third. It is a very important thing to know, the distinction between repetition and insistence.