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Cybernetics Snacks is a virtual speaker series featuring fun, bite size and engaging talks from leading thinkers in the field of cybernetics.

In each 15-30 minute public chat, we invite all speakers to respond to the same four questions – but every speaker and every talk is completely different!

This Cybernetics Snacks recording was hosted by Dr Jess Herrington, futures specialist from the ANU School of Cybernetics, and featured Dr Tara Abraham, an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Department of History in Toronto.

Join Drs Jess Herrington and Tara Abraham in the video below!#

Tara’s Cybernetic Snack Pack of Resources:#

  • Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016). edited volumes

  • Editor, “Warren S. McCulloch and His Circle,” guest-edited issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37, no. 3 (September 2012).

  • “The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics: Re-instantiating the Mind,” History and Systems of Psychology, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (Oxford), April 2020.

  • “Cybernetics”, Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind, edited by Martin Sprevak and Matteo Colombo (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 52-64.

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