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Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis

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One of the most interesting ‘might have been’ moments in intellectual history happened in the early 1970s, when Brian Eno traipsed to a dingy cottage in Wales to pay homage to Stafford Beer. Eno had written a fan letter to Beer after reading his book on management cybernetics, Brain of the Firm. Beer had then come to visit Eno in London, bearing with him a box of cigars and a bottle of sherry, and telling Eno about: Thanks for reading Programmable Mutter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts. If you want to support my work, buy my and Abe Newman’s book, Underground Empire. new forms of governance and what governments would have to be in the future. None of that has come true yet! According to Eno’s report, “the house took a long time to defumigate” afterwards. That didn’t deter him from making his return visit to Beer in Cwarel Isaf on a miserably wet day, where he was mauled and wrestled to the ground by Beer’s four dogs, which he described as looking and acting “like huge mud pain

Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis What Stafford Beer and Dan Davies say and why you need to read them Henry Farrell Apr 17, 2024 70 30 15 Share One of the most interesting ‘might have been’ moments in intellectual history happened in the early 1970s, when Brian Eno traipsed to a dingy cottage in Wales to pay homage to Stafford Beer. Eno had written a fan letter to Beer after reading his book on management cybernetics, Brain of the Firm . Beer had then come to visit Eno in London, bearing with him a box of cigars and a bottle of sherry, and telling Eno about: Thanks for reading Progr

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