CONTENTS -- Editorial advisory board -- Abstracts -- Preface -- Foreword -- The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics -- Sequences of failure in complex socio-technical systems -- The market economy unchecked -- Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry -- City planning -- The role of information and models in regulating complex commercial systems -- A self-organizing network for the systems community -- Observing experiences with the VSM -- Viability versus tribalism -- Observations on the development of cybernetic ideas in Colombia -- Heinz and Stafford -- The footprint of complexity: the embodiment of social systems -- A Latino American Requiem for Stafford Beer -- Fighting for science -- Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy -- Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning -- World in Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come -- Knowing Norbert -- Man in a garrulous silence -- Ten pints of Beer -- A filigree friendship -- What is cybernetics?.