What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines
After years of struggle to build his DAMS (Dispersive and Multistable System), Ross Ashby began in 1958 to scale back his ambitions in a manner recounted by Andrew Pickering on pg 130 of his The Cybernetic Brain: Ashby’s strained optimism of 1957 was misplaced. A year later, on 29 September […]
