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Our Newsletter editor Satoshi IGUCHI (Japan) had made available the latest issue of our beloved RC51 Newsletter. View / Download it here.

We are currently seeking contributions for the upcoming Issue No. 46, scheduled for release in October 2025. We welcome contributions including:
・Announcements
・Conference reports
・Essays
・Book reviews

If you have insights or experiences from recent conferences including the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, or books you’ve read, or any information you would like to announce to the members, please feel free to contribute a text and share your insights.

Deadline for contributions: Tuesday, September 30, 2025.
Please send your manuscripts to siguchi05@gmail.com.

While there is no strict words limit or format, typically, reports and essays range from 500-600 words, and book reviews from 1000-2000 words. For more information on the newsletter and to access previous issues, please visit: https://sociocybernetics.org/newsletter

We look forward to your contributions. Thank you!

Satoshi Iguchi
Editor of the RC51 Newsletter

Our Newsletter editor Satoshi IGUCHI (Japan) had made available the latest issue of our beloved RC51 Newsletter. Download it here.

Dear RC51 members and friends,

I’m Satoshi Iguchi, the editor of the RC51 newsletter.

As announced by Saburo Akahori, the president of RC51, we are currently seeking contributions for the upcoming Issue No. 45, scheduled for release in March 2025.

We welcome contributions including announcements, conference reports, essays, or book reviews etc.
If you have insights or experiences from recent conferences, or books you’ve reviewed, or any information you would like to announce to the members, please feel free to contribute a text.

Deadline for contributions: Friday 28, 2025.
Please send your manuscripts to siguchi05@gmail.com.

While there is no strict words limit or format, typically, reports and essays range from 500-600 words, and book reviews from 1000-2000 words.

For more information on the newsletter and to access previous issues, please visit: https://sociocybernetics.org/newsletter

We look forward to your contributions.
Thank you for your continued support of RC51’s conferences and activities.

Thank you so much,

Satoshi Iguchi
Editor of the RC51 Newsletter

Our Newsletter editor Satoshi IGUCHI (Japan) had made available the latest issue of our beloved RC51 Newsletter. Download it here.

Dear RC51 members,

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Felix Geyer, the great forerunner of our research field and honorary president of RC51. It is an honor to share contributions from authors who had long and close relationships with Felix. The world is still in turmoil, but Felix’s work will be our lasting source of insights and encouragement to deal with the challenges we are facing.

In July we held the first virtual conference, the 16th International Conference of Sociocybernetics: “The Pandemic Era: Observations and Reflections from a Sociocybernetics Perspective”.  A thread of contributions related to the conference is another feature of this issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about all kinds of trouble to our research activities. But the efforts made for the conference and vibrant discussion we had showed that the pandemic cannot stop our progress. You can get both an overview of the conference and in-depth views from contributors’ reports and essays. We appreciate all contributions from the organizers, moderators, presenters, and active participants!

We also include an interesting book review by Bernd Hornung about social theories. Social theories encourage us to rethink our society from different, using a word from the book, “alternative” views. The pandemic forced us to adopt “alternative” ways in various dimensions of society. Social theories in the pandemic era will be a thought-provoking topic also in sociocybernetics. Thank you, Bernd!

As ISA announced, the 4th Forum of Sociology in Porto Alegre was postponed to February 2021 and will now be held online. So, while we will not have chance to see each other in 2021 in Brazil, we are looking forward to meeting with you all online once again.

Best regards,

Toru Takahashi and Andrew Mitchell
RC51 Newsletter Editors
rc51newsletter@sociocybernetics.org