Foreword: Ranulph Glanville and How to Live the Cybernetics of Unknowing A Festschrift Celebration of the Influence of a Researcher

摘要

It is not customary to use journals for festschrifts. But we have made an exception with our columnist-and contributor to the journal through the years-Ranulph Glanville. Since our journal began, his work has created great academic interest among our readers, and we wanted researchers from the many areas he touched with his work to reflect on the nature and impact of this unusual engaged thinker, who combined breadth and depth in a very original way throughout his life and practice. This tribute issue to the effects of Ranulph Glanville's life work began as a celebration of his life. Soren Brier and Lou Kauffman sent out the call for contributions on October 28 of last year, while Ranulph was still alive, though they were aware of his terminal illness. Allow us to reprint most of the call for contributions' first paragraph: Ranulph Glanville is about to retire from his work for the Cybernetics & Human Knowing journal... He will also retire from great parts of his enormous fan of work for associations such as the ASC, conferences and other journals. We therefore thought we would commemorate his gigantic work with a festschrift commenting on the significance of what he has done.