De Profundis. Ranulph Glanville's Approach to Second
De profundis. Ranulph Glanville‘s Approach to Second-Order Cybernetics Karl H. Müller Steinbeis Transfer Center New Cybernetics Orlando, July 13, 2015 Overview Ranulph Glanville (1946 – 2014) The German Hall of Fame of Radical Constructivism and the Exclusion of Ranulph Glanville The Transcendental Foundations of Ranulph Glanville‘s Framework: The Internet of Objects The Internet of „Black Booxes“ The Legacy Ranulph Glanville, 1946 - 2014 President of the American Society for Cy- bernetics (2009 - 2014) Professor for Innovation Design, Royal College of Art, London Professor for Research Design, Catholic Uni- versity of Leuven The German Hall of Fame of Radical Costructivism 1974 Ernst von Glasersfeld: Jean Piaget as a Radical Constructivist 1987: S.J. Schmidt (ed.): The Discourse of Radical Constructivism Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela, Niklas Luhmann, Germans, etc. Excluded Jean Piaget, Gordon Pask and His Group (Ranulph Glanville, Bernard Scott) The Basic Organization of the Three Black Booxes Volume I Cybernetics (Second-Order Cybernetics) Objects Black Box Distinction | Variety Volume II Explorations Design | Representation (Language) Knowing | Education Others (Richard Jung, Gordon Pask, Heinz von Foerster, Ernst von Glasers- feld, Gerard de Zeeuw, etc. Volume III 39 Steps: Cybernetic Musings in “Cybernetics and Human Knowing” Ranulph Glanville‘s Approach: Approximation I: Goals My work might be thought of as a generalization of the work of others. (Glanville, 2012:192) Many of us watch games. Some play, others umpire or referee. Still others govern games and make/remake the rules. There are some who create the field of play, mark and maintain it. The potential (Gibson’s affordance) is not however, limited to games: others may use the ground in a completely unanticipated way, unintended by those who set up the ground.
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