Hallvard Haug's Page

For this session of the cybernetics reading group, Hallvard Haug will be presenting on his research on cybernetics and cyborgs.The reading for this session will be Nathan Kline and Manfred Clynes' 1961 article 'Drugs, Space and Cybernetics: Evolution to Cyborgs'. A shorter, popularised version of this article also appeared in 1960 as 'Cyborgs and Space'.…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

The cybernetics reading group is meeting again for a session on Heinz von Foerster and an extract from his collection Understanding Understanding.Due to the short notice we will focus on  chapter 8 (pp. 211-224), "On Constructing a Reality".Optionally, we can also take a look at chapter 9, "Cybernetics of Epistemology".The book can be found at…See More

The cybernetics reading group is meeting again for a session on Heinz von Foerster and an extract from his collection Understanding Understanding.Due to the short notice we will focus on  chapter 8 (pp. 211-224), "On Constructing a Reality".Optionally, we can also take a look at chapter 9, "Cybernetics of Epistemology".The book can be found at…See More

For the next session of the Cybernetics reading group we are focussing on information.Our primary text is Warren Weaver's popularisation of information, "Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication," Claude Shannon's paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is also of interest, but is very technical. It is therefore suggested to read the introduction and first few sections of part 1.Links to the papers can be found here:…See More

For the second session 19 November we are reading the following: Pages 6-13 (25-32 of the PDF reader) of 'Introduction' from Cybernetics (on feedback) Norbert%20Wiener%20-%20Cybernetics%20-%20Introduction.pdf and Chapter 10 ‘Some Communication Machines and Their Future’ from The Human Use of Human…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

Room 112, 43 Gordon Sq18:00-19:30The first meeting of the cybernetics reading group is an introduction to cybernetics ideas. This session we are reading two foundational texts:McCulloch and Pitts, 'A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity'; andRosenblueth, Wiener and Bigelow, 'Behavior, Purpose and Teleology'…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love.  Please join us!See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

THE DATE AND ROOM HAS CHANGEDReading contemporary fiction returns with Dystopian Motherhood, introduced by Fran Bigman2 May 2012, Keynes LibraryIn a 2007 article, Rachel Bowlby writes about how things have changed since the late 1970s or early 1980s, when “feminism was a strong force politically,” a 1960s-derived feminism in which “The emphasis was on the right for women not to have children – on pregnancy and motherhood as burdens, if not as the key to all female oppression… Motherhood, at…See More