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Brand
University of Chicago Press
UPC
9780226667898
MPN
60 halftones, 28 line drawings
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60 halftones, 28 line drawings
Country of Origintion
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Dimensions LxWxH - Cms
6X1.4X9
ISBN-10
226667898
ISBN-13
9780226667898
SKUASIN
SONG0226667898
Edition
Illustrated
No of Pages
536
Book Title
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
Item Length
6
ISBN
9780226667898
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
Item Height
236 mm
Author
Andrew Pickering
Publisher
T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Subject
Computer Science, Science
Item Weight
946 g
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
536 Pages

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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.

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T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226667898
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Number of Pages
536 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Computer Science, Science
Type
Textbook
Author
Andrew Pickering
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
236 mm
Item Weight
946 g
Item Width
152 mm

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Title_Author
Andrew Pickering

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