Ranulph Glanville and How to Live the Cybernetics of Unknowing

A festschrift issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing focusing on the work of Ranulph Glanville, cybernetician, design researcher, theorist, educator and multi-platform artist/designer/performer.

Contents:

Cybernetics & Human Knowing
Foreword: Ranulph Glanville and How to Live the Cybernetics of Unknowing
Living Between Cybernetics Columns
Ranulph Glanville: The Cybernetician of the Black Box of Second-order Unknowing
Remembering Ranulph Glanville
Ranulph Glanville’s Thesis on the Theory of Objects and the Invention of Second-order Cybernetics
De Profundis: Ranulph Glanville’s Transcendental Framework for Second-order Cybernetics
The Be-ing of Objects
Putting Flesh on the Bones: Ranulph Glanville’s Contributions to Conversation Theory
Cybernetics and Design: Conversations for Action
Designing Exploring as a Second-order Process
Preferences in Architectural Research
Conversation, Design and Ethics
The Big Picture: Connecting Design, Second-order Cybernetics and Radical Constructivism
What I Learned from Ranulph Glanville
What I Learned from Ranulph
Designing Together
Glanville’s Consistency
My Time with Ranulph Glanville
Virtual Logic—Laws of Form and the Mobius Band
Second-Order Cybernetics, Radical Constructivism, and the Biology of Cognition: Paradigms Struggling to Bring About Change
Two Roads Which Diverged
The Noninevitable Teleologist