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Publications and activities 2015
Publication of selection of papers presented at WOSC 2014
Raul Espejo was the Guest Editor of Vol 44, Issues 6/7 of the Journal Kybernetes, published at the end of September 2015. This double issue included 23 of the contributions to our last Congress. Copy of this editorial is in the file below:
Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities
Professor Ray Ison, the President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, extended an invitation to WOSC to participate in the event “Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities” at the Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover Germany, last July 30th and 31st. Funding support for this event was given by the Volkswagen Stiftung (Foundation) through collaboration with the Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems based at Humbolt University in Berlin. WOSC was represented by Professor Jose Perez Rios, Dr Igor Perko, Mrs Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Professor Raul Espejo.
Problem statement
The prevailing paradigm in the governance of the relationship between humans and the biophysical world is characterised by commitments to scientism and linear, causal and dualistic thinking. Currently governance, if understood as enacting cyber-systemic processes that maintain the quality of relationships between humans and the biosphere, can be seen to be failing on many fronts. The Anthropocene has emerged as a conceptual framing for this issue, but to date little cyber-systemic understanding and praxis (theory informed practical action) has meaningfully informed the unfolding discourse.
Link to the related blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/govan/
The Cybernetics of Governance Chile 1971-1973
Last December Raul Espejo gave a talk about Cybersyn at the University of Westminster, London. Video recording of this event is now uploaded in YouTube:
youtu.be/JGTEoJI5-Y4
The talk highlighted Cybersyn’s governance approach in contrast to current approached as well as its methodological and epistemological strengths and weaknesses. The talk was followed by a lively debate.
New publication by Professor Raul Espejo
Raul Espejo (Syncho Research, L., UK) (2015). “An Enterprise Complexity Model: Variety Engineering and Dynamic Capabilities.” International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 2(1): 22.
Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 2(1)
Launching of WOSC 2014 for Latin-America
Launching of WOSC 2014 for Latin-America at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia de 14th of October. Event’s language: Spanish. All are welcome.
Lanzamiento de WOSC 2014 en Latinoamerica en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia el 14 de octubre. Evento en Español . Todos son bienvenidos.
Paper Submissions, Publication and Prize
The Congress homepage wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co gives instructions to upload papers with accepted abstracts. We are pleased to inform that Emerald, publisher of Kybernetes is sponsoring a prize for the best paper (£200 and one year subscription to the journal) and also diploma commendations to three outstanding papers. We have agreed with its editors to publish a double issue of Kybernetes in 2015 with referred papers towards.
Preparations for WOSC 2014 -May 2014
Over the past few months researchers from all over the world have made submissions to participate in WOSC2014. The attached file Communication 5 WOSC 2014 offers a summary of preparations for this Congress.
Registration form is in
http://wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co/
Information about travelling and hotels to attend the Congress can be found in:
http://wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co/index.php/accommodation
Look forward to seeing you in Ibague!
Deadline extension for Submissions to WOSC 2014
By the 31st of March we had a fantastic list of submissions from all over the world. People who made submissions by that deadline will receive, as planned, Notification of Acceptance by the 30th of April . However still we want more submissions and for this second call we have extended the submissions deadline to THE 20TH OF MAY. For this second call the sooner you make a submission the sooner you will receive a Notification of Acceptance.
PhD course on Cybersemiotics and Transdisciplinarity III
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Department of International Business Communication PhD course on organized by Professor Søren Brier The course is first of all an explanation and exploration of the integrative transdisciplinary framework Cybersemiotics and how it is carried out in two steps: The first is to accept three major and very different transdisciplinary paradigms as both being legitimate: 1. The cybernetic-informational approach leading to cognitive science’s information processing paradigm, 2. Second order cybernetics, autopoiesis theory and Luhmann’s system science and 3. The Peircean, triadic, evolutionary, semiotic approach to meaning and its development into modern biosemiotics. The second step involves explaining the development from first order cybernetics to second order cybernetic and autopoiesis theory from Gregory Bateson through Heinz von Foerster to Maturana and Varela and Spencer Brown to Niklas Luhmann’s threefold autopoietic system theory and discuss how it can be integrated into a Peircean framework encompassing the natural, life, social and human sciences without reducing one to the other. Pierce’s metaphysical view on sciences, philosophy and religion and the nature of reality is also discussed. Participant contribute to the discussions with presentation of their interdisciplinary projects and the problems they face. The course is organized by Professor Søren Brier (CBS). It contains lectures by Jesper Hoffmeyer, Frederik Stjernfelt, Stephen Cowley, Torkild Thellefsen, Sara Cannizzaro and Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena Johansson and will function in a workshop style. Read more about the course, lecture plan, reading list and enrollment on the course website: Deadline for enrollment: 1 July, 2014. Further information: Søren Brier, sb.ibc@cbs.dk |
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Outstanding List of Keynote Speakers to WOSC 2014
Keynote speakers to WOSC 2014 are introduced in the following file.
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Also this list is in the WOSC 2014 Congress website: