Heinz von Foerster

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At Sonic Acts, Timothy Druckrey showed interview clips of Heinz von Foerster from the film “Das Netz”, by Lutz Dammbeck. I knew von Foerster’s name as a collegue of Gordon Pask and one of the founders of constructivist thinking, but I did not quite yet fathom what he was really about.
What a man !
See this article for something of an overview of his connections. EVERYTHING on that page is cool. Also there is his article “Perception of the Future and the Future of Perception” from 1971. It makes you wonder why we have become so square nowadays, or is it just me ?

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