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Cybernetics

3 entries

  1. Exploratory Sound Creation and the Trap of Modular SynthesisThe modular synthesizer promises openness but quietly funnels the user into the same few structures — an argument for an instrument whose primary material is relation, difference, and coupling.
  2. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic PsychologyBraitenberg's thought experiments in which simple sensorimotor machines produce lifelike behavior — a foundational text on emergence from minimal parts.
  3. Designing FreedomBeer's CBC Massey Lectures analyze why institutions fail through the lens of cybernetics — and how the science of effective organization could be used to redesign them.