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Brain of the firm by Stafford Beer
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he …
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Science for the People by Sigrid Schmalzer, Daniel S. Chard, Alyssa Botelho, and 3 others
For the first time, this book compiles original documents from Science for the People, the most important radical science movement …
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Designing freedom by Stafford Beer (The Stafford Beer classic library)
In these 1973 Massey Lectures, Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His …
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The cybernetic brain by Andrew Pickering
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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in …
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
4 stars
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first …
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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the …
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How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters
4 stars
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed …
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
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In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid …
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The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook
"The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of …
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