The following constitutes the last few slides of Naveh's 2007 presentation at Fort Leavenworth.
Strategic Epistemology – Operational Heuristics
• Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Boston, 1998, pp. 33-54 (“The Organization of Living Things”), 73-92 (“The Life of Metacellulars”).
• David Bohm, and F. David Peat, Science, Order, And Creativity, London, 2000, pp. 15-62 (“Revolutions, Theories, and Creativity in Science”), 151-91 (“The Generative Order and the Implicate Order”).
• Gerald Edelman, Bright Air Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind, New York, 1992, pp. 42-51(“Morphology and mind: Completing Darwin’s Program”), 99-110 (Memory and Concepts: Building a Bridge to Consciousness”), 188-96 (Is it Possible to Construct a Conscious Artifact”).
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 15-34 (“What is a Concept”).
• Gregory Bateson, Sacred Unity – Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind, New York, 1991, pp. 161-74 (“Mind/Environment”).
• Margaret A. Boden, The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Bungay, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 54-87 (“Maps of the Mind”).
• Niklas Luhman, Theories of Distinction – Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity, Stanford University Press, 2002, 94-112 (“Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing”).
Between Subversion and Discourse: Critical Thinking and Autopoietic Systems
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, London, 1988, pp. 351-423 (“Treatise on Nomadology – The War Machine”).
• Jean Francois Lyotard, The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, pp. 3-6, 14-18, 27-36, 53-60.
• David Bohm, On Dialogue, Bungay, Suffolk, 2006.
Operational Art: The Discipline of Martial Architects
• G.S. Isserson, (Tr. Bruce Menning), The Evolution of Operational Art, Fort Leavenworth, 2005, pp. 1-82.
• Francois Jullien, A Treatise on Efficacy – Between Western and Chinese Thinking, Hawai’i University Press, 2004.
• T.E. Lawrence, “Science of Guerrilla Warfare”, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th Edition, 1929.
• Sun Tzu, (Translation and introduction Roger Ames), The Art of Warfare, New York, 1993, pp. 39-96 (“Analysis of Sun Tzu).
Operational Commander as System Designer
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Life of Nelson – The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, Naval Institute Press, 2001, pp. 229-36 (“The Battle of St. Vincent”), 293-305 (“The Battle of the Nile”),694-96 (“Plan of Attack, May 1805”), 696-99 (“Memorandum, 9 October 1805).
• Bruce Condell and David T. Zabecki, (translation and editing),Truppenfuhrung, Boulder, Colorado, 2001, pp. 22-38 (“Command”).
• Ralph D. Sawyer, (translation), The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, pp. 60-75 (“The Dragon Secret Teaching”), 292-300 (“Superior Strategy”).
• Frank O. Gehry, “Reflections on Designing and Architectural Practice”, In Richard J. Boland, and Fred Collopy, (eds.), Managing as Designing, Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 19-35.
• Barbara Czarniawska, “Management as the Designing of an Action Net”, in Richard J. Boland, and Fred Collopy, (eds.), Managing as Designing, Stanford University Press, 2004, pp.102-05.
2nd Order Cybernetics: Systems of Observation, Systems of Inquiry, Systems of Learning
• Peter Checkland, Systems Thinking – Systems Practice, New York, 2004, pp. 125-48 (“Hard Systems Thinking – The Engineers’ Contribution”), 149-91 (“The Development of Soft Systems Thinking”), 192-240 (“T he Systems Methodology in Action”).
• Stafford Beer, Diagnosing the System for Organizations, New York, 2003, pp. 1-134.
• Gordon Pak, The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance, London, 1975, pp. 258-99 (“Learning Strategies, Teaching Strategies, Matching and Mismatching”).
• Ervin Laszlo, The Systems View of the World, Broadway, NJ, 1996, pp. 59-94 (“The Systems View of Ourselves”).
• George Klir, Facets of Systems Science, New York, 2001, pp. 24-7 (“Classification of Systems”), 37-46 (“Systems Thinking”), 63-87 (“Epistemological Categories of Systems”), 123-32 (“Systems Knowledge”), 154-70 (“Simplification Strategies”).
• Alicia Juarrero, Dynamics in Action, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 151-62 (“Dynamical Constraints as Landscape: Meaning and Behavior as Topology”), 215-44 (“Explaining Human Action: Why Dynamics Tells Us That Stories are Necessary?”).
• John Mingers, Realizing Systems Thinking – Knowledge and Action in Management Science, New York, 2006, pp. 33-61 (“Living Systems – Autopoiesis”), 65-99 (“Observing Systems: The Question of Boundaries”), 103-27 (“Cognizing Systems”), 167-92 (“Social Systems”), 217-53 (“The Process of Multi-Methodology”).
• Tony Clementson, Strategy and Uncertainty: A Guide to Practical Systems Thinking, Amsterdam, 1988, pp. 10-36 (“Defining the System”, “Operations”), 167-92 (“On the Assessment of Systems”, “Strategy and Change”).
Design: Problematization of a Complementing Methodology
• Richard Buchanan, “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking”, in Victor Margolin and Richard Buchanan, (eds.), The Idea of Design – A Design Issues Reader, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 3-20.
• Klaus Krippendorff, “On the Essential Contexts of Artifacts or on the Proposition that ‘Design is Making Sense (of Things)’ “in Victor Margolin and Richard Buchanan, (eds.), The Idea of Design – A Design Issues Reader, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 156-86.
• Victor Margolin, “The Product Milieu and Social Action”, in Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, (eds.), Discovering Design – Explorations in Design Studies, Chicago University Press, 1995, pp. 121-45.
• Carl Mitchman, “Ethics into Design”, in Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, (eds.), Discovering Design – Explorations in Design Studies, Chicago University Press, 1995, pp. 173-89.
• Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World, Chicago, 2000, pp. 151-85 (“Rebel with a Cause: Invention and Innovation”).
• Howard Margolis, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition – A Theory of Judgment, Chicago University Press, 1987, pp. 169-87 (“Cognitive Dynamics: Paradigm Shifts”).
• Herbert A. Simon, The Science of the Artificial, MIT Press, 1996, pp. 111-38 (“The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial”).
• John Thackara, In the Bubble – Designing in a Complex World, MIT Press, 2005, pp. 135-60 (“Learning”).
Design: Setting The Boundaries for the Operator’s Praxis
• Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 101-20 (“Architecture and Limits”), 191-206 (“Abstract Mediation and Strategy”).
• Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 55-74 (“Patterns of Events”), 75-100 (“Patterns of Space”), 167-210 (“Our Patterns of Language”).
• Peter G. Rowe, Design Thinking, MIT Press, 1998, pp. 39-114 (“Aspects of Design Thinking”).
• Donald A. Schon, The Reflective Practitioner – How Professionals Think in Action, New York, 1983, pp. 76-104 (“Design as Reflective Conversation with the Situation”), 128-67 (“The Structure of Reflection in Action”).
• Brian Lawson, How Designers Think – The Design Process Demystified, Architectural Press, 2005, pp. 29-50 (“Route Maps of the Design Process”), 51-61 (“The Components of Design Problems”), 113-30 (“Problems, Solutions and the Design Process”), 185-204 (“Design Strategies”).
• John Chris Jones, Design Methods, New York, 1992, pp. 45-60 (“The New Methods Reviewed”), 272-92 (“Methods for Searching for Ideas”).