Interesting. Might actually help pull back the Friam meetings to focus on
multi-discisiplianary discussions. Seems to blend the mechanical
(modeling) and the philosophic .. at least looking at the first issue:
http://www.systems-journal.eu/issue/view/13
This was evocative:
Predicting the evolutive city
The notion of time in diagrammatic thinking
Caterina Padoa Schioppa
Politecnico di Milano, Via dei Ramni 2, 00185 Rome – Italy,
-- Owen
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> fyi, all.
> -tj
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bob Logan <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:10 PM
> Subject: [MEA] A new journal, "systems' accepting papers on media ecology
> and an invitation for an MEA panel
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Dear MEA Collaegues – I want to introduce you to a new journal
>
> systems. connecting matter, life, culture and technology.
>
> The URL for the journal is www.systems-journal.eu
>
> The journal was started by my friend Wolfgang Hofkirchner and his
> colleague Manfred Fuellsack both of whom are systems scientists.
>
> Manfred is Editor-in-Chief of the journal and is at the Institute of
> Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, University of
> Graz, Austria.
>
> Wolfgang is the Supervisory Editor and is at the Bertalanffy Center for
> the Study of Systems Science and the Vienna University of Technology
> I have the honour to be an Associate Editor of the journal with a mandate
> to recruit papers that deal with media ecology as a systems approach.
> Here is a description of the focus and scope of the new journal
>
> Focus and Scope
> systems. connecting matter, life, culture and technology publishes the
> proceedings of the EMCSR and peer reviewed papers on systems, complexity
> and network research, as well as insightful survey papers.
>
> The journal endorses cross-disciplinary approaches and welcomes
> contributions that elucidate commonalities and compatibilities in natural,
> artificial, and social systems.
>
> Among the domains and topics covered are
>
> • cybernetics
> • general systems theory
> • complex adaptive systems
> • theory of social systems
> • systems biology
> • economic systems
> • technosocial systems
> • media ecology <-- (please note)
> • systems design
> • modeling
> • complexity
> • network theory
> • computational and information theory
> So why am I introducing you to this journal and soliciting your
> participation. It is because I believe that media ecology is a systems
> science and I believe that we should make use of this journal to publish
> media ecology papers that make use of a systems approach. If media ecology
> is to have an impact outside of our own community we need to interact with
> scholars in closely allied fields like systems science. Marshall McLuhan
> was a systems thinkers who was influenced by Ludwig von Bertalanffy,
> Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Boulding, Bucky Fuller and Norbert Weiner. McLuhan
> made use of feed forward in is book War and Peace in the Global Village: An
> Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be
> Eliminated by More Feedforward (McLuhan, Fiore and Angel 1968).
> Feedforward, one of the key concepts of general systems theory that McLuhan
> actually picked up from I. A. Richards, one of his professors at Cambridge.
> I. A. Richards actually coined the term feedforward and was certainly a
> systems thinker even though he was a rhetorician. I have argued in my book
> McLuhan Misunderstood, soon to be released, that McLuhan was a systems
> thinker.
> I intend to write a paper for this new journal developing the thesis in
> greater depth that McLuhan was a systems thinker. I would like to edit a
> special edition of the journal, a collection of essays that develops the
> thesis that media ecology and/or the writings of McLuhan and other media
> ecologists incorporate a general systems approaches. I also would like to
> organize a panel discussion on this topic at the MEA convention in Toronto.
> I invite you to submit a paper for this collection and participate on the
> panel. Please email me if you are interested in this project to submit a
> paper for the journal and/or participate on the panel Media Ecology as a
> Systems Science - Bob
> ______________________
>
> Robert K. Logan
> Chief Scientist - sLab at OCAD
> Prof. Emeritus - Physics - U. of Toronto
> http://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertKLogan
> www.physics.utoronto.ca/Members/logan
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