Metaphorum organizes a monthly webinar series.
Upcoming Webinars
08-May-2024
The Sapient Paradox as the consequence of a cybernetical bifurcation in the evolution.
Dr. Peter Robertson
My presentation intends to illustrate one different view on the cybernetical history of humankind that is emerging in the natural sciences, not to assume any answer but to inspire more exploratory questions. Why did humankind create such a moral and ec …
02-Jun-2024
The heart of the 4th industrial revolution in the brain of Viable System Model.
Rodrigo Fernández Albornoz
Many of Beer and his team’s reflections on the effective incorporation of people into the project considered prototypes for measuring audiences in real time. This view of the common good is especially critical in the main political and sociocultural dilemmas that form part of todays debates regarding the future of ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Recent Webinars
03-Apr-2024
Cybernetics and the Environmental Crisis
Professor Andrew Pickering
Foreshadowing the disasters of the Anthropocene, in the late 1960s Gregory Bateson developed a cybernetic analysis of the environmental crisis which was then starting to be recognised. He argued that its roots lay in dualist fantasies of control of nat …
06-Mar-2024
Language as an Enabling Constraint for Viability
Pille Bunnell
We are usually unaware that language imposes constraints on how we perceive, think and act, even as it is central to all that we do. What language enables is clearly apparent: all the cultures, technologies and designs we humans have created are ground …
31-Jan-2024
From Viable Organizations to Viable Ecologies
Michael Zargham
We will begin the discussions on the VSM and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO)s, one of the topics agreed on at our last Metaphorum Conference in Manchester to develop ‘Special Interest Groups’ on topics of interest to our community. It will …