...Tom Scholte Concerns about the current low profile and potentially tenuous future of cybernetics across and beyond academia are seldom absent from discussions amongst cyberneticians at conferences and in print. In particular, the failure of the reflexive turn of second-order cybernetics (SOC...

...Hugo Letiche Purpose Second-order cybernetics is explored here as a learning intervention strategy. Researcher reflexivity, both the student’s and the professor’s, that is asserted is crucial to achieving a liberatory learning experience. But as Lacan has revealed, the “symbolic” (written...

... is independent of significant subsets of their actions. Practical implications The practical implications of this study are strongest for the logical understanding of the author’s constructions and actions. They have used eigenform and reflexivity to maintain a clear view of their participation in their own...

...Dr Raul Espejo; Raul Espejo Purpose – Illustrate supported by Beer’s Viable System Model and four vignettes the relevance of self-organisation, recursive structures, self-reference and reflexivity in policy processes. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach...

...Torcuato Perez de Guzman Upholds the equivalence between the sociological notion of reflexivity and the idea of self‐reference, which epistemologically and structurally distinguish those complex systems where humans participate as elements. Once there is a conceptual bridge between sociology...