The cybernetic brain: sketches of another future

Psychiatry to cybernetics

Grey Walter: from electroshock to the psychedelic sixties

The tortoise and the brain

Tortoise ontology

Tortoises as not-brains

The social basis of cybernetics

Rodney Brooks and robotics

Cora and machina docilis

Cybernetics and madness

Strange performances

Flicker

Flicker and the sixties

Biofeedback and new music

Ross Ashby: psychiatry, synthetic brains, and cybernetics

The pathological brain

Ashby's hobby

The homeostat

The homeostat as ontological theater

The social basis of Ashby's cybernetics

Design for a brain

Dams

Madness revisited

Adaptation, war, and society

Cybernetics as a theory of everything

Cybernetics and epistemology

A new kind of science: Alexander, Kauffman, and Wolfram

Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: symmetry, psychiatry, and the sixties

Gregory Bateson

Schizophrenia and enlightenment

Therapy

As nomad

R. D. Laing

On therapy

Kingsley Hall

Archway

Coupled becomings, inner voyages, aftermath

Psychiatry and the sixties

Ontology, power, and revealing

Beyond the brain

Stafford Beer: from the cybernetic factory to tantric yoga

From operations research to cybernetics

Toward the cybernetic factory

Biological computing

Ontology and design

The social basis of Beer's cybernetics

The afterlife of biological computing

The viable system model

The VSM as ontology and epistemology

The VSM in practice

Chile: project cybersyn

The politics of the VSM

The political critique of cybernetics

On goals

The politics of interacting systems

Team syntegrity

Cybernetics and spirituality

Hylozoism

Tantrism

Brian Eno and new music

Gordon Pask: from chemical computers to adaptive archictecture

Musicolour

The history of musicolour

Musicolour and ontology

Ontology and aesthetics

The social basis of Pask's cybernetics

Training machines

Teaching machines

Chemical computers

Threads

New senses

The epistemology of cybernetic research

Cas, social science, and F-22s

The arts and the sixties

Cybernetic theater

Cybernetic serendipity

The social basis again

The fun palace

After the sixties: adaptive architecture

Sketches of another future

Themes from the history of cybernetics

Ontology

Design

Power

The arts

Selves

Spirituality

The sixties

Altered states

The social basis

Sketches of another future.