ISRR 2025 Session 6: Substantialism & the 'Great Tradition' and cybernetics

This online ISSR seminar took place on March 28, 2025. Zoltán Lakatos from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest and Toni Čerkez from Tallinn University, Estonia were speakers in this session. Zoltán Lakatos presentation titled "Substantialism and beyond in the sociology of values" covered substantialist thinking and contemplated values that takes sociology beyond such thinking. Toni Čerkez discourse titled " The 'Great Tradition' and cybernetics: Towards technodiversity and relationality" explored Toni's thoughts and research on the topic that uses cybernetics as a metaphor. Books discussed in the session: Theory of Valuation by John Dewey, 1949. Radical Embodied Cognitive Science Book by Anthony Chemero Reassembling the Social An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory by Bruno Latour How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles