Postdigital Cybernetics

Donner M, Allert H (2025)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: Springer

Edited Volumes: Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education

City/Town: Cham

Pages Range: 1-7

ISBN: 9783031354694

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35469-4_92-1

Abstract

This article describes the development and reception of cybernetics from its beginnings in the 1940s. It moves through second-order cybernetics, which corresponds with the social liberalization of the 1960s and 1970s, to third-order cybernetics, which takes shape with the global intensification of ecological problems after the turn of the millennium. The article points at cybernetics as an important precursor of postdigital theory and outlines the main features of postdigital cybernetics, its main challenges, and future research directions.

Authors with CRIS profile

Martin Donner UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education

Involved external institutions

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Donner, M., & Allert, H. (2025). Postdigital Cybernetics. In Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education. (pp. 1-7). Cham: Springer.

MLA:

Donner, Martin, and Heidrun Allert. "Postdigital Cybernetics." Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education. Cham: Springer, 2025. 1-7.

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