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Welcome to /c/cybernetics!

Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system’s actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action.

Books

• An Introduction to Cybernetics, W. Ross Ashby
• Design for a Brain, W. Ross Ashby
• Desigining Freedom, Stafford Beer
• Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Norbert Wiener
• The Human Use of Human Beings, Norber Wiener
• Towards an anarchist cybernetics, Thomas Swann
• Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics (Organizations and Activism), Thomas Swann

Documentaries

• Eyewar - Cybernetics and Project Cybersyn
• Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile (Full Documentary by Plastic Pills)
• How CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn part1
• How CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn part2
• How CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn part3

Website resources

• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Cybernetics Society
• Ciber Communismo

Cybernetics in practice

##TODO help needed

• project cybersyn
• others, if any

Other cybernetics commnities

• chats (no discords, or other “evil” platforms [TODO help needed to define this properly])
  • xmpp|cybernetics room
  • xmpp|systemic thinking room
• forums
  • TODO help needed
• conferences
  • TODO help needed

• this is a living document. it will be updated as time goes. if you want to add some resource or make a correction write a comment in thread.