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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Clarke is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and a past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His books include Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics.Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of Literature at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media and Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. Klappentext Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics (the cybernetics of cybernetics) that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman. Zusammenfassung Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Neocybernetic Emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N26. Hansen 1 Interview with Heinz von Foerster / Interviewer: Bruce Clarke 26 Heinz von Foerster's Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory / Bruce Clarke 34 The Early Days of Autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela 62 Life and Mind: From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology / Evan Tompson 77 Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi 94 System-Environment Hybrids / Mark B. N. Hansen 113 Self-Organization and Autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann 143 Space is the Place: The Laws of Form and Social Systems / Michael Schiltz 157 Improvisation: Form and Event—A Spencer-Brownian Calculation / Edgar Landgraf 179 Communication versus Communion in Modern Psychic Systems: Maturana, Lohmann, and Cognitive Neurology / Linda Brigham 205 Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction": Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe 220 Complex Visuality: The Radical Middleground / Ira Livingston 246 Bibliography 263 Contributors 279 Index 281 ...
