Conversation is a Cybernetic Technology (2018)

"Conversation is a cybernetic technology" is a book/zine I made in 2018, as part of a Cybernetics Library zine publication.

Let’s consider conversation as a cybernetic technology that is often informally, unconsciously structured.

If we think of conversation as cybernetic technology, what kind of playful programs, algorithms, or code exercises can we enact to formally structure how we converse, and how our feedback loops tangle with each other?

Other influences have been: Augusto Boal's Games for Actors and Non-Actors, contact improvisation, Jo Freeman's The Tyranny of Structurelessness, cooperative facilitation techniques. For other references, see https://www.are.na/dan-taeyoung/facilitation-conversation-strategies-not-concepts.

You can download the entire book as a PDF here, or on Are.na.

If you're interested in a physical copy, please let me know at dan@dantaeyoung.com! I am currently sold out of copies, but I may do an additional print run in the future.