2001 Conference
The Praxis of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Praxis
Abstracts: Presentations and Playshops
OVERVIEW
A variety of presentations were made at the 2001 ASC Conference. The primary plenary presentations were of draft papers. In addition, there were interactive group playshops in which a topic or issue was explored. Each planned presenter submitted an abstract of his / her contribution in advance of the conference.
This page provides a single point of access to these abstracts. First, the available paper / presentation abstracts are listed according to the conference session in which they were to be presented. Finally, the set of playshop abstracts are then listed.
To access the papers developed from abstracts for publication, please visit the 2001 Conference Papers page.
SESSION THEME:
Beth Dempster
Being organizationally ajar: An alternative heuristic for understanding change in system organization
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Carol English
&
Bert McGinnis
Models as Cognitive Amplifiers
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Frank Galuszka
Color as a system: the cybernetics of the limited palette
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Philip Lewin
Paradoxes of Cybernetic Praxis
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Larry Richards
The Praxis of Thinking: Deliberate vs. Improvised
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Stuart A. Umpleby
Types of More General Theories and Strategies for Winning Acceptance of them
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SESSION THEME:
Ely A. Dorsey
The Lie of Race: The Politics of Evil
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Janet D. Fiero
Surviving and Thriving Ecologically:
Exploring Luhmann's social autopoiesis
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Gaetano Giordano
The Child Custody Dispute: A Conflictive Praxis to Resolve a Conflictive Praxis and its "Psychopathological Problems"
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Allenna Leonard
Contexts of Coercion
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Judith Lombardi
Behavioral Cybernetics: A Praxis for Understanding Human Interactions
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Antonín Rosicky
Information And Social Systems Evolution
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Stephen Sloan
A brief story about writing:
My Current Self-Description of Manic-Depression in a System
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Randall Whitaker
Conversations of Conflict:
Information Warfare as an Outcome of Being Human
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SESSION THEME:
Rosalind Armson
&
Ray Ison
If you're a fish, what can you know about the water?
Some reflections on doing systems when you are immersed in the context
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Gary Boyd
Qualitative Cybersystemic Modelling as Praxiscybernetics of Praxis
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John Brocklesby
The Cybernetics of Praxis in Management Science
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Mary Lou Collins
The Tornado Effect: when Organizational Systems Collide
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Jason Hu-Ji-Xuan
Self-Organization behind Corporate Development in U.S. and China: Two Types of Companies Due to Cultural Differences
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Dennis Sandow
Construction of an economy of well being: stories from business
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Alan Stewart
Creating a culture of conversing: Applying cybernetic notions in business praxis
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Randall Whitaker
&
Ulf Essler
Interactivity in Electronic Commerce:
Shifting the Focus of Business Modeling
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Elizabeth White
Praxis: from Wang Labs ' 80 to Texas Instruments '98
a Second Order Cybernetics Journey
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Philip Wrigley
A Systems Theory of Deliberative Meetings in Organizations and its Implications for Management Practice
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SESSION THEME:
Jeanette Bopry
Reconceptualizing "Information" in Educational Technology
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Lee Gass
The value of cybernetic models of teaching and learning
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Sonia MacPherson
Ecological creativity, refle(x)ive pra(x)is, and "the real world" of education
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Mary-Ellen Perley
Drama and Literary Interpretation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Praxis
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Brent Cameron
PLAYSHOP: Time and the Observer
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Frank Galuszka
PLAYSHOP: Does Creativity Exist?
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Monique Giard
PLAYSHOP: Distinguishing Dimensions through Movement
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Louis H. Kauffman
PLAYSHOP: Sign and Space
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Joe Miguez
&
Tricia Pearce
PLAYSHOP: Knowing Recursion
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Fleurette Sweeney
PLAYSHOP: Patterns of Social Play
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