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On the Web
- Radical Constructivism - The most comprehensive Webspace on constructivist epistemology (a component of the second-order cybernetics worldview), especially the work of von Glasersfeld and von Foerster
- Luis E. Bastias - Contributions to the development of Valparaiso's Autopoiesis Theory
- Towards an Ecology of Mind - Well-organized site addressing (e.g.) Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Heinz von Foerster, and George Kelly.
- Chilean School of Biology of Cognition - Offering overview of Maturana's contributions to psychology, 'Ask Professor Maturana', and online archive editions of important articles.
Wikipedia Articles
- Second-order cybernetics - Second-order cybernetics, also known as the cybernetics of cybernetics, investigates the construction of models of cybernetic systems. It investigates cybernetics with awareness that the investigators are part of the system, and of the importance of self-referentiality, self-organizing, the subject-object problem, etc.
- Cybertext - In cybernetics the term cybertext is used to describe the concept of organization of the text in order to analyze the influence of the medium as an integral part of the literary dynamic, as noted by Espen Aarseth in 1997.