CybORGs. Cybernetic Organisms and Cybernetic Organizations

Laura Forlano

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21087

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Laura Forlano College of Arts, Media, and Design, Northeastern University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3997-7180

Laura Forlano, a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar, is a disabled writer, social scientist and design researcher. She is Professor in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University (USA). She is the author of Cyborg (with Danya Glabau, MIT Press, 2024) and an editor of three books: Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, 2019), digitalSTS (Princeton University Press, 2019) and From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press, 2011). She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University (USA).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21087

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Innovation, disability, interdisciplinary, design, work

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This essay is a short reflection — part memoir, part professional update, and part provocation — that was offered at the 25th anniversary of the Center on Organizational Innovation in November 2024.

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Forlano, L., & Glabau, D. (2024). Cyborg. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Stark, D. (2011). The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Stark, D. (2024). Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

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