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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"von Foerster"”.
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Diffusion of Total Quality Management: An Organizational Self-Production Perspective
… cybernetics (Ashby, 1962; Steier & Smith, 1985; von Foerster, 1960), dissipative structure theory (Prigogine & Stengers, 1984), and chaos theory (Gleick, 1987). As developed in this research, the concept "self-organizing" is extended into the study of TQM implementations, focusing on the …
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The cybernetics of language
… of' describing as well as described systems (von Foerster)). The difficulty and the possibility of its resolution are introduced in terms of differences between Russell and Wittgenstein; in terms of the second order cybernetic discussions of the black box (seen as capturing Wittgenstein's …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… socio-epistemological second-order framework (Von Foerster 1984; Pakman 2003) for cultural work and its entanglements with ethics, aesthetics, pragmatics, politics—and biopolitical production (Hardt and Negri 2000; 2009). In order to build “third spaces” of knowledge (Turnbull 2000) and to …
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The mathematical modeling and analysis of nonlocal ecological invasions and savanna population dynamics
… for the model, which extends the McKendrick-von Foerster equation to populations with age and phonetic structures. Numerical integrations of the model reveal how shifts in vowel pronunciation may occur in jumps or continuously given perturbations such as the influx of an immigrant population.
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
This dissertation traces the roots of an experimental art school for social change called the School for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated …