Anthony Wilden

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Anthony Wilden (born December 14, 1935 London, England) is a writer, social theorist, college lecturer, and consultant. Wilden has published numerous books and articles which intersect a number of fields, including systems theory, film theory, structuralism, cybernetics, psychiatry, anthropological theory, water control projects, urban ecosystems, resource conservation, and communications and social relations.

Wilden was a professor in the Communications Department at Simon Fraser University from the 1970s to the mid 1990s.

He has attended the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 1960-61, 1963-65; and Johns Hopkins University, earning his Ph.D. in 1968.

Selected writings and publications

• (With Jacques Lacan) The Language of the Self, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968, revised edition, 1976; reprinted as Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis, 1981.
• System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange, 1st and 2nd ed., Tavistock Publications, 1972 and 1980, French translation, Boreal Express, Montreal, 1983.
• (Contributor) D. E. Washburn and D. R. Smith, editors, Coping with Increasing Complexity, Gordon & Breach, 1974.
• (Contributor) K. Riegel, editor, Structure and Transformation, Wiley, 1975.
• (Contributor with Tim Wilson) Carlos Sluzki and Donald Ransom, editors, Double Bind: The Foundation of the Communicational Approach to the Family, Grune & Stratton, 1976.
• "Le Canada imaginaire" French translation of "The imaginary Canadian" by Yvan Simonis ; foreword by sociologigist Marcel Rioux., Presses Coméditex, Québec, QC, 1979.
• "The imaginary Canadian", Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC,1980.
• (Contributor) M. Maruyama and A. Harkins, editors, Cultures of the Future, Mouton, 1980.
• (Contributor) Kathleen Woodward, editor, The Myths of Information: Technology and Post-Industrial Culture, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
• (With R. Hammer) Busby Berkeley and the Mechanical Bride: From "Flying Down to Rio" to "The Lullaby of Broadway" 1933-35 (videotape montage), Simon Fraser University, 1984.
• (Contributor) Paul Bouissac, Michael Herzfeld, and Roland Posner, editors, Iconicity: Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok, Stauffenberg Verlag, 1986.
• The Rules Are No Game: The Strategy of Communication, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
• Man and Woman, War and Peace: The Strategist's Companion, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
• (Contributor) K. Krippendorff, editor, Communication and Control in Society, Gordon & Breach, 1979.

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