Neocybernetics and narrative

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This study rethinks narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, it demonstrates second-order systems theory's potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory. The book offers a synthesis of the neocybernetic theories of cognition formulated by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, incubated by cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, and cultivated in Nikla…

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Full title :Neocybernetics and narrative / Bruce Clarke.

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Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, MN
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (xxi, 211 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781452942155, 1452942153
oclc:ocn895048157
LC Classification:PN212
Dewey Decimal:808

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Mysteries of Cognition -- 1. Systems, Media, Narrative: From the Trace to the Telepathic Imaginary -- 2. Communication and Information: Noise and Form in Michel Serres and Niklas Luhmann -- 3. Feedback Loops: Media Embedding and Narrative Time from Jimi Hendrix -- 4. Observing Aramis, or the Love of Technology: Objects and Projects in Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour -- 5. Mediations of Gaia: Ecology and Epistemology from Gregory Bateson -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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Cybernetics in literature Cybernétique dans la littérature LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composit… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric Narration Narration (Rhetoric) Philosophy (General) REFERENCE -- Writing Skills System theory in literature Théorie des systèmes dans la littérature