Herbert Brün Society

This is the document that was published by the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion following the 6 weeks of discussions between Herbert Brün, Iván Illich, Heinz Von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, and Gordon Pask.

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The other elements of the cuaderno have been published elsewhere (see below).

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See also:

Brün, Herbert. (1970, 2004) Technology and the composer. In: Chandra, Arun (Ed.) 2004. When music resists meaning: The major writings of Herbert Brün. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Illich, Iván. (1971) Education without school: How it can be done. Four Educational Networks. In: The New York Review of Books 15(12): 25-31. July 1, 1971. New York. (A Special Supplement).

Maturana, Humberto. (1970) Neurophysiology of cognition. In: Garvin, Paul (Ed.) 1970. Cognition: A Multiple View. New York: Spartan Books. Chapter 1, pp. 3-23.

(much of Maturana’s main points are replicated in his 1970 Biology of Cognition.)

Pask, Gordon. (1962) My prediction for 1984. In: Bannister, R. (Ed.) 1962. Prospect. London: Hutchinson.

Von Foerster, Heinz. (1970) Molecular ethology: An immodest proposal for semantic clarification. In: Von Foerster, Heinz. 2002. Understanding understanding. New York: Springer.