Hiya Mike!
You'll be sorry! Especially since I can see my bookshelves from where
I'm typing right now. ;-)
These are books about, and using, various permutation of "systems".
Here's a short, idiosyncratic list, that jumps around abit as I scan or
make an association:
General....
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General System Theory NY Braziller, 1968.
Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics ; Human Use of Human Beings
Steve Joshua Heims, Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America MIT, 1991.
John Casti, The Cambridge Quintet. Perseus, 1998.
William Poundstone, Prisoner's Dilemna Anchor, 1992
Robert Buderi, The Invention that Changed the World NY Simon and
Shuster, 1996.
Isabelle Stengers, The Invention of Modern Science, trans. Daniel W.
Smith, Minnesota, 2000.
Isabelle Stengers, Power and Invention, Minnesota, 1997.
Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order out of Chaos, Bantam, 1984.
Manuel de Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (?)
Michelle Serres, The Natural Contract U Mich. 1995.
Bruno Latour, Aramis, or The Love of Technology , Harvard, 1996.
Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope, Harvard, 1999.
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, Chicago, 1999.
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines1999
David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus (?) and The Advent of the
Algorithm, Harcourt, 2000.
William R. Paulson, The Noise of Culture, Cornell 1986.
Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, Princeton (?)
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 1968.
Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? 1990(?)
Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
Chicago 1997. (this is where the term "trading zone" comes from that now
has the weight of such terms as "paradigm"
somemaylikebutidon't:
Niklaus Luhmann, anything by.
Frederick Kittler, anything by..... both published by StanfordUP.
A bit more Specific, with some reading order suggested....
Maturana and Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition, 1980.
Maturana and Varela, The Tree of Knowledge Shambala...(?)
Varela, Principles of Biological Autonomy 1979.
Winograd and Flores, Computers and Cognition Addison Wesley, 1986.
Varela, Thompson and Rosch, The Embodied Mind MIT, 1991.
Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception
Ilya Prigogine, From Being to Becoming WH Freeman, 1980.
Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life? 1940(?)
Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity, 1971
Henri Bergson: Matter and Memory Eng trans 1906; Zone Books, 1988.
Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution [1919]
Henri Bergson: Two Sources of Morality and Religion[1934?)]
Isabelle Stengers: Ethical Know-How Stanford, 2000.
Prigogine and Nicolis, Exploring Complexity 1990.
Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild MIT 1995?
Gerald Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
John Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems 1979
John Holland, Hidden Order
John Holland, Emergence
Stuart Kauffman, The Origins of Order 1993
Chris Langton, Artificial Life, 1989
Stephen Levy, Artificial Life, 1992.
Pierre Levy, Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age Plenum, 1998.
Pierre Levy, Collective Intelligence ?
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker 1987
The actual works by those associated with first, second and third order
cybernetics and the Macy Conferences not mentioned (my list is obviously
biased):
Shannon, von Neumann, Pagels, and so on.
Timothy Lenoir, Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the
Materiality of Communication
Gumbrecht and Pfeiffer, Materialities of Communication both from
Stanford.
and don't forget....
Peg Syverson, A Wealth of Reality SIUP, ?
Gotta get Gabriel in the bath.....mer
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