The Cybernetic Brain has some wild stuff in there, but overall it feels kinda fluffy in the depths it dives to. I think it's great to get the intellectual history with folks like Walter and Ashby, but overall you could cut out a lot of their psychotherapy-oriented work from the writing.
With the other psychologists discussed, you could keep their stuff. I think it ends up getting to useful places at times, and it's profoundly moving stuff.
It's really the philosophical explanations of non-modern ontologies and cybernetic thinking, the Beer chapter an to a lesser extent the chapter on Pask that should interest us as leftists. That said, for leftists looking to organize and economy or run an org, Beer's where it's at.
The Cybernetic Brain has some wild stuff in there, but overall it feels kinda fluffy in the depths it dives to. I think it's great to get the intellectual history with folks like Walter and Ashby, but overall you could cut out a lot of their psychotherapy-oriented work from the writing.
With the other psychologists discussed, you could keep their stuff. I think it ends up getting to useful places at times, and it's profoundly moving stuff.
It's really the philosophical explanations of non-modern ontologies and cybernetic thinking, the Beer chapter an to a lesser extent the chapter on Pask that should interest us as leftists. That said, for leftists looking to organize and economy or run an org, Beer's where it's at.