Complex Systems & Systems Thinking Links

Systems & Systems Thinking

• Systems Theory — including "Comparison of Bateson and Polanyi on Systems Theory" and "Organizations and the Systems Concept" at the Sustainable Leadership website
• Bertalafnfy's General Systems Theory — by Gregory Mitchell (on the Trans4Mind website).

Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, & Recursiveness

• American Society for Cybernetics
• Chapter 3 - Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Framework — from: Mathur, P. (2003). Theorizing "ecological communication." Dissertation, Department of Science and Technological Studies, University of Vermont (etd-08112003-175921).
• Bateson and Cybernetics — by Mark Oehlert
• "From Versailles to Cybernetics" by Gregory Bateson — on The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities website
• Gregory Bateson, Critical Cybernetics and Ecological Aesthetics of Dwelling — by Jon Goodbun — full article: page 35-48 in Field Journal
• On Translatability — by Wolfgang Iser — a cybernetic and recursive view of culture.
• Feedback Loops — by Penny Tompkins & James Lawley
• Getting Started with Systems — by Bruno (Bruce) Clarke