1-2-3-4 i declare time war!

• Paul Virilio’s The Lost Dimension (1991)

  • collection of 5 essays about time, urban design, social theories post quantum theory, acceleration, etc — highly recommend

• John Zerzan’s “Time and its Discontents” (2009)

  • short essay

• Wolfi Landstreicher’s “A Critique, Not a Program: For a Non-Primitivist Anti-Civilization Critique” (2007)

  • short essay

• John Gall’s Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail (1975)

  • read the whole thing, it’s crucial, short (104 pages) and doesn’t require math

• Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)

  • for math-oriented people: read introduction, chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3 to get started — if you dig it, carry on

  • for not-math-oriented people: read the introduction and chapter 1 on Bergsonian and Newtonian time

• Vespignani et al’s Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks (2008)

  • for math-oriented people: after getting through chapters 1-3, you can switch to this one and carry on with both texts, supplementing each other where needed

  • for not-math-oriented people: read chapter 2 (covers networks and complexity)

• Tiqqun’s The Cybernetic Hypothesis

  • enough said

for those really interested in cybernetics and complex adaptive systems, here are some lectures i’ve watched/studied (took notes on):

• Pawel Sobkowicz on a New Model of Individual Opinion Dynamics based on Information and Emotions

• Professor Holland (originator of genetic algorithms) on Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems

• Dave Snowden on Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)

• Dave Snowden on How Leaders Change Culture Through Small Actions