Disalienation in the management classroom: lessons from Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game

Foreword: The Oroborous and the Glass Bead Game

This double issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing is dedicated to celebrating the life and work of Heinz von Foerster, cybernetician extraordinaire. He died on October 2nd, 2002. Mai von Foerster, his wife of over 60 years, died on June 22nd, 2003. They lived as a team and it is wrong to think of the work that appeared under the authorship of Heinz von Foerster without thinking of Mai's part i...

Lessons From the Classroom

Phonological awareness is one of several key precursor skills to conventional literacy that develop during the preschool period. Significant amounts of research support the causal and predictive relation between phonological awareness and children’s ease of learning to decode and spell. However, many preschool curricula and early childhood educational and caregiving settings are still lacking i...

The Modeling of Nature as a Glass Bead Game

In his novel The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse introduces an essentially cosmic game within a symbolical Universe which recently has been compared with a „neuronal network of the cosmic mind“. In his game all those games which are known to us today appear to be summarized. Hence, by closer inspection, the glass bead game shows up as a meta-game, a proto-game, and as a playful paradigm of playi...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Lessons from the Game Cartridge