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(P/B) THE CYBERNETIC BRAIN // SKETCHES OF ANOTHER FUTURE

(P/B) THE CYBERNETIC BRAIN

SKETCHES OF ANOTHER FUTURE

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PICKERING ANDREW
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0991-0435
Τιμή Πολιτείας
€48.00




Παρουσίαση

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.
The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics' impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgments
1. The Adaptive Brain
2. Ontological Theater
PART 1: PSYCHIATRY TO CYBERNETICS
3. Grey Walter: From Electroshock to the Psychedelic Sixties
THE TORTOISE AND THE BRAIN
TORTOISE ONTOLOGY
TORTOISES AS NOT-BRAINS
THE SOCIAL BASIS OF CYBERNETICS
RODNEY BROOKS AND ROBOTICS
CORA AND MACHINA DOCILIS
CYBERNETICS AND MADNESS
STRANGE PERFORMANCES
FLICKER
FLICKER AND THE SIXTIES
BIOFEEDBACK AND NEW MUSIC
4. Ross Ashby: Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, and Cybernetics
THE PATHOLOGICAL BRAIN
ASHBY'S HOBBY
THE HOMEOSTAT
THE HOMEOSTAT AS ONTOLOGICAL THEATER
THE SOCIAL BASIS OF ASHBY'S CYBERNETICS
DESIGN FOR A BRAIN
DAMS
MADNESS REVISITED
ADAPTATION, WAR, AND SOCIETY
CYBERNETICS AS A THEORY OF EVERYTHING
CYBERNETICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE: ALEXANDER, KAUFFMAN, AND WOLFRAM
5. Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: Symmetry, Psychiatry, and the Sixties
GREGORY BATESON
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ENLIGHTENMENT
THERAPY
AS NOMAD
R. D. LAING
ON THERAPY
KINGSLEY HALL
ARCHWAY
COUPLED BECOMINGS, INNER VOYAGES, AFTERMATH
PSYCHIATRY AND THE SIXTIES
ONTOLOGY, POWER, AND REVEALING
PART 2: BEYOND THE BRAIN
6. Stafford Beer: From the Cybernetic Factory to Tantric Yoga
FROM OPERATIONS RESEARCH TO CYBERNETICS
TOWARD THE CYBERNETIC FACTORY
BIOLOGICAL COMPUTING
ONTOLOGY AND DESIGN
THE SOCIAL BASIS OF BEER'S CYBERNETICS
THE AFTERLIFE OF BIOLOGICAL COMPUTING
THE VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL
THE VSM AS ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY
THE VSM IN PRACTICE
CHILE: PROJECT CYBERSYN
THE POLITICS OF THE VSM
THE POLITICAL CRITIQUE OF CYBERNETICS
ON GOALS
THE POLITICS OF INTERACTING SYSTEMS
TEAM SYNTEGRITY
CYBERNETICS AND SPIRITUALITY
HYLOZOISM
TANTRISM
BRIAN ENO AND NEW MUSIC
7. Gordon Pask: From Chemical Computers to Adaptive Archictecture
MUSICOLOUR
THE HISTORY OF MUSICOLOUR
MUSICOLOUR AND ONTOLOGY
ONTOLOGY AND AESTHETICS
THE SOCIAL BASIS OF PASK'S CYBERNETICS
TRAINING MACHINES
TEACHING MACHINES
CHEMICAL COMPUTERS
THREADS
NEW SENSES
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CYBERNETIC RESEARCH
CAS, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND F-22S
THE ARTS AND THE SIXTIES
CYBERNETIC THEATER
CYBERNETIC SERENDIPITY
THE SOCIAL BASIS AGAIN
THE FUN PALACE
AFTER THE SIXTIES: ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE
8: Sketches of Another Future
THEMES FROM THE HISTORY OF CYBERNETICS
ONTOLOGY
DESIGN
POWER
THE ARTS
SELVES
SPIRITUALITY
THE SIXTIES
ALTERED STATES
THE SOCIAL BASIS
SKETCHES OF ANOTHER FUTURE
Notes
References
Index
Λεπτομέρειες
ISBN139780226667904
ΕκδότηςUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Σειρά
Χρονολογία ΈκδοσηςΔεκέμβριος 2009
Αριθμός σελίδων536
Διαστάσεις22x15
Συγγραφέας/Δημιουργός (Ελληνικά)ΠΙΚΕΡΙΝΓΚ ΑΝΤΡΙΟΥ
Κωδικός Πολιτείας0991-0435
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