Cybernetics Snacks is a speaker series of virtual bite-sized talks with leading voices in the cybernetics conversation. 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! In the spirit of the Ratio Club, our PhD students then have the opportunity for an off-the-record conversation with the speaker. For everyone else, we package up a tasty Snack Pack of take-home resources relating to each speaker’s talk.
Click here to read the latest menu for May/June 2023, and to access all the talks as they happen. No sign-up required.
Past Cybernetics Snacks#
Got a spare 20min in your day? Nibble on one of our past Snacks below. Can’t decide which one to watch? Surprise me!

Cybernetics Snacks: Bill Reckmeyer
Cybernetics and systems science, with a side of global affairs and leadership.

Cybernetics Snacks: Catherine Mason
A rich feast for all the senses, bringing together British artists, history and cybernetics.

Cybernetics Snacks: Genevieve Bell
A series intro previewing the menu of speakers, featuring pavlova, tasting plates and tantalising tastes of cybernetics.

Cybernetics Snacks: Kate Hayles
AI, bodies and the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, infused with postmodern literary criticism.

Cybernetics Snacks: Matthew Holt
Design and cybernetics, fried with historical notes.

Cybernetics Snacks: Michael Arbib
A complex blend of computational neuroscience, systems of systems and cybernetic futures.

Cybernetics Snacks: Orit Halpern
Histories of science, computing and cybernetics, whisked with design, futures and social change.

Cybernetics Snacks: Paul Pangaro
Human-computer interaction with an American Society for Cybernetics drizzle.

Cybernetics Snacks: Ray Ison
A complex blend of rural development, sustainable management, and collaborative, practical action.

Cybernetics Snacks: Ron Eglash
Ethnomathematics and social justice infused with systems science and indigenous histories.