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Denken met de rivier: De milieufilosofie van Tanaka Shōzō
This article explores the environmental philosophy of Tanaka Shōzō, a pioneering Japanese environmentalist during the Meiji era (1868-1912). Tanaka’s response to the ecological and social devastation caused by the Ashio copper mine offers a unique perspective on the relationship between humanity, nature, and technology. His philosophy, especially his ideas on nagare (flow) and doku (poison) emphasizes the interconnectedness of ecological and social systems. I argue that it can offer an alternative to dualistic approaches to nature and is a fruitful addition to contemporary environmental ethics and biotechnology. Specifically, I suggest that Tanaka’s emphasis on an intimate understanding of and collaborative engagement with natural systems can inspire a more reflective and sustainable approach to science and biotech.
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Cybernetic Frameworks for a Shared World
This ebook presents seven articles developed from contributions to the 2018 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), which took place during 7-12 August in Chicago, Illinois. The conference theme Framing Reality and How It Matters in a Shared World aimed to encourage presenters to consider how the world we share on a daily basis is socially constructed from diverse concurrently developing viewpoints and narratives.The conference theme illustrates the importance of recognizing and navigating within diverging and often conflicting narratives: We each frame how we look at the world in conjunction with our assumptions, tools, models, and narratives. These frames, in turn, affect what we perceive to be our available actions (American Society for Cybernetics, 2018). With every individual and every community creating and embracing different frameworks and narratives, what we recognize as reality is inevitably diverse. Narratives in turn influence what we pay attention to and how we choose to act. In the face of such diverse claims to what is seen to constitute reality , we must recognize the subjectivity of our framing and learn to interrogate it. Because every individual frames her reality differently, some narratives are contradictory (ibid.).Presentations at the conference discussed how, from a cybernetic perspective, the differences arising from such diverging narratives offer potential for variety and innovation rather than conflict. Becoming aware of and accommodating narratives beyond our individual selective viewpoints allows us to expand our horizons and can lead to new insights. This applies not only to personal narratives but also to disciplinary perspectives and methods of inquiry, affecting the ability of communities of scholars to interact. The conference theme implicitly also challenged conference participants to examine their own cybernetic narratives when encountering other narratives. The papers collected in this volume show cybernetics in dialogue with diverse fields which introduce their own narratives.
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Cybernetics : or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine
\"Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. This book is widely cited for laying the theoretical foundations of information theory and influencing the development of error-correcting servomechanisms, autonomous navigation, analog computing, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Perché la tecnologia ha bisogno dell’archeologia
Probably nothing more than technological development has characterized the last century. From research on cybernetics, which had an incredible momentum during the years of the Second World War, and that they involved the most brilliant mathematicians, psychologists and ethologists and physicists of the time, the technological development to support of contemporary society has practically none known setbacks. Every element of our daily life has been affected by this process which today still seems unstoppable: from communications to hygiene, from production to knowledge, from entertainment to ethics. Similarly, every discipline has been irremediably involved by technological and digital evolutions.
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