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Mon, 2007-07-30 23:33 — ifsr

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Wed, 2009-12-30 20:12 — ifsr

2009-12-30 Ranulph Glanville's 1975 PhD Thesis available

I am glad to announce that my PhD thesis officially entitled "A Cybernetic Development of Theories of Epistemology and Observation, with reference to Space and Time, as seen in Architecture" (also known as "The Object of Objects, the Point of Points, —or Something about Things") has now, 35 years later, been made available by the British Library as key PhD Thesis selected for scanning and free access.
This text is searchable, although the searchability is not all that good. If you need better search facilities, contact me directly.
The thesis is seen as an important text in second order cbernetics. The thesis deals with a question that is central to second order cybernetics. If the observer is always present, and if each observer is different, what sort of structure would support this presence and this difference, while allowing us to believe that we observe "the same thing". In the thesis I propose a formulation and a structure, based on self-observation, which generates a logic of observational connection, and means of communication, —representation and conversation.
It is presented in a terse, elegiac, aphoristic, poetic form, with a parallel text of footnotes. It is illustrated with studies of how we understand the city, 6 short stories and a piece of music: and is summarised in 16 limerick poems.

You can access the thesis as follows: go to the url http://ethos.bl.uk You will have to sign in.
then ask for uk.bl.ethos.456747 Note that the author is Glanville, R.

(If you ask for Glanville, Ranulph, you will find my second PhD thesis, which is concerned with spatial conception in architecture, and is a saga of failure and re- formulation leading to the understanding of the essential holism of perception. You will have to pay for that one. )