The Culture of Feedback : Ecological Thinking in Seventies America /

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback." But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamics of self-regulating systems, which corr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belgrad, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Temas:
Ecology > United States > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Ecology-United States-Philosophy-History-20th century.
Environmentalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Environmentalism-United States-History-20th century.
HISTORY / General.
1970s.
Native Americans.
ambient music.
animal intelligence.
counterculture.
cultural history.
cybernetics.
ecology.
environmentalism.
plant intelligence.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Systems, Ecology, and Environmentalism
  • 2. Self- Organizing Systems and Mind in Nature
  • 3. Crying Indian
  • 4. Talking with Plants
  • 5. Ambient Music
  • 6. Dancing with Animals
  • 7. Neo- Orthodoxies
  • Conclusion: A Metahistory
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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