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Paper Published by Cybernetics & Human Knowing!

Paper Published by Cybernetics & Human Knowing!

Another paper of mine entitled “The Destabilizing Cybernetics of Implausibility: The Anti-Anthropocentric Crisis” was published this month in Cybernetics & Human Knowing 26, nos. 2-3: 169-190. In it, I use an analysis of my own creative process to formulate the hypothesis that a feedback loop connects the music composer, the composition, and its percipients, moving them gradually away from humanocentricism.

Can Music, as a Discipline, Contribute to a Conversation about Resilience?

Can Music, as a Discipline, Contribute to a Conversation about Resilience?

The distinguished attendees of the American Society for Cybernetics 2017 Conference (where I gave a lecture/recital featuring my own works) define resilience as the ability to respond to change. Scott M. Harris, founder of Recursionist Publishing, is one of these people. “Beneath this is a form of reason based not only on logic but also on...beauty,” he says.