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The cybernetic brain : sketches of another future /
"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 largel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Psychiatry to cybernetics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Beyond the brain
- 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
- 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
- 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.