I started looking for some sources on New Cybernetics and these are the first I found       Peter HarriesJones  The SelfOrganizing Polity An Epistemological Analysis of Political Life by Laurent Dobuzinskis in Canadian Journal of Political Science Revue canadienne de science politique Vol  No  Jun  pp   The new cybernetics is a study of selforganizing systems which looks beyond the issues of the first cybernetics  the politics and sciences of control  to the autonomy and selforganization capabilities of complex systems   Unlike its predecessor the new cybernetics concerns itself with the interaction of autonomous political actors and subgroups and the practical can reflexive consciousness of the subject who produce and reproduce the structure of political community A dominant consideration is that of recursiveness or selfreference of political action both with regards to the expression of political conciousness and with the ways in which systems build upon themselves    Tom Darby  The Feast Meditations on Politics and Time on p  states   the socalled new cybernetics  attempts to move away from the cybernetics of Wiener Whereas the old cybernetics is still tied to the image of the machine ie physics the new adheres to the image of organism biology The main task of the new cybernetics is to overcome entropy through using noise as positive feedback   Gertrudis van de Vijver  New Perspectives on Cybernetics SelfOrganization Autonomy and Connectionism on p  With Pask we agree that the old cybernetics the new cybernetics and we like to add the old and new cognitive paradigms are not that revolutionary different from each other And as is mostly the case the socalled new paradigms are in a sense older that the old paradigms The socalled old paradigms were in most cases strategically succesful specializations in a general framework Their sucess was based on a strong but useful simplification of the issues The new paradigms are further specializations in the earlier one or as is mostly the case a strategic retreat which boradens the specialized approach and is a return to the orginal broader inspiration and outlook This is what happens we believe with the new cybernetics the postcybernetics as well as with the new cognitive approach  Now if I would make an article with just these three sources it would look like this   New cybernetics is a study of selforganizing systems It looks beyond the issues of the first old of original cybernetics and their politics and sciences of control to the autonomy and selforganization capabilities of complex systems Peter HarriesJones  The SelfOrganizing Polity An Epistemological Analysis of Political Life by Laurent Dobuzinskis in Canadian Journal of Political Science Revue canadienne de science politique Vol  No  Jun  pp    Overview  The socalled new cybernetics is an attempts to move away from the cybernetics of Norbert Wiener Whereas the old cybernetics is still tied to the image of the machine and physics the new adheres to the image of organism and biology The main task of the new cybernetics is to overcome entropy through using noise as positive feedback Tom Darby  The Feast Meditations on Politics and Time p   Unlike its predecessor the new cybernetics concerns itself with the interaction of autonomous political actors and subgroups and the practical can reflexive consciousness of the subject who produce and reproduce the structure of political community A dominant consideration is that of recursiveness or selfreference of political action both with regards to the expression of political conciousness and with the ways in which systems build upon themselves   Old and New Cybernetics  Gordon Pask and others have stated that the old cybernetics the new cybernetics and we like to add the old and new cognitive paradigms are not that revolutionary different from each other And as is mostly the case the socalled new paradigms are in a sense older that the old paradigms The socalled old paradigms were in most cases strategically succesful specializations in a general framework Their sucess was based on a strong but useful simplification of the issues The new paradigms are further specializations in the earlier one or as is mostly the case a strategic retreat which boradens the specialized approach and is a return to the org