The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics

by von Foerster, Heinz; Müller, Albert; Müller, Karl H.; Rooks, Elinor; Kasenbacher, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780823255610
• ISBN10: 0823255611
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780823255627
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-12-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Author Biography

Heinz von Foerster is one of the most consequential thinkers in the history of cybernetics. Von Foerster wrote nearly two hundred professional papers, gaining renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology and family therapy.

Albert Müller is Professor of History in the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna and the general secretary of the Heinz von Foerster Society.

Michael Kasenbacher is a social scientist and translator.

Karl H. Müller is Head of the Vienna Institute for Social Scientific Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM) and the president of the Heinz von Foerster Society.