Günther, G. (1962) ‘Cybernetic Ontology and Transjunctional Operations’, in Yovits, M.C., Jacobi, G.T. and Goldstein, G.D. (eds.) Self-Organizing Systems. Washington, DC: Spartan Books, pp. 313–392. Reprinted in Beiträge zur Grundlegung einer operationsfähigen Dialektik, Vol. 1. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1976.

Günther’s iconic idea is that classical ontology and two-valued logic cannot account for cybernetic systems because self-reference, automata and reflexive operations exceed the inherited Aristotelian partition of being and non-being. His theoretical contribution is the formulation of a trans-classical ontology in which logic must be operationally restructured to describe realities that think, switch, observe and recursively transform their own conditions. For Socioplastics, Günther is crucial because he converts ontology from metaphysical background into technical apparatus: a system is legible only when its logic can accommodate recursive position, distributed agency and non-identical operations. The operational value lies in treating conceptual fields as multi-positional machines rather than linear taxonomies. The bridge to the wider field is cybernetics and systems theory, especially the shift from representation to operation, where ontology becomes a grammar for self-organising, self-modifying environments.