Fernando Flores

Fernando Flores worked out this understanding of conversations for action.

In 1970 at the beginning of Chilean socialist pacific revolution in the Allende’s government, Fernando Flores, an engineer in charge of CORFO, the office which was in charge to manage the nationalized companies, knew the work of the cybernetician Stafford Beer on Management Cybernetics, and invite him to apply his VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL. Beer accepted the invitation and the project started with the configuration of a transdisciplinary team and a branch of several Chilean and foreign institutions, like …

A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.