Journal article
Developing a cybernetic lifestyle
Kybernetes, Vol.42(9/10), pp.1424-1430
2013
Abstract
Purpose - The dominant paradigms of our world today are reductionist and linear and have led us towards crises in the environment, economics, health and more. Cybernetics is one alternative paradigm, which moves beyond reductionist thought. In this paper we investigate cybernetics and how it might move from a paradigm to a way of living. A cybernetic worldview enables us to see ourselves as partners in dynamic co-creative processes reaching beyond dualities. To live by such a life requires courage. This paper concentrates on how cybernetics principles may be applied on an individual basis to provide a more holistic way of coping with the challenges of everyday life in the early 21st century. We see how we can live a balanced life, cope with uncertainty, live with courage, move beyond dualities and develop a breadth of knowledge to help us navigate the events of our lives. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a brief outline of some cybernetic principles and how they might be transferred to a cybernetic lifestyle. The focus is on how we might integrate cybernetic principles into our individual life on a day to day basis. Findings - Breadth of knowledge, moving beyond dualities, the observer, living with courage, uncertainty and living a balanced life are discussed from a cybernetic viewpoint. Practical implications - It gives cyberneticians cause to consider their lives and how cybernetic principles help them in everyday life. Originality/value - The approach of this paper is about cybernetics as an individual lifestyle rather than a more generalised examination of the role of cybernetics.
Details
- Title
- Developing a cybernetic lifestyle
- Authors
- Victor MacGill (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- Kybernetes, Vol.42(9/10), pp.1424-1430
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.1108/K-09-2012-0043
- ISSN
- 0368-492X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449066702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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