Introduction: An Epistemological Transition -- Part I. Gaia Discourse -- A Paradigm Shift -- Thinkers of Gaia -- Neocybernetics of Gaia -- Part II. The Systems Counterculture -- The Whole Earth Network -- The Lindisfarne Connection -- Margulis and Autopoiesis -- Part III. Gaian …
This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski's fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural,…
"The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen scholars from six different countries address the historical and aesthetic dimensio…
"The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen scholars from six different countries address the historical and aesthetic dimensio…
Neocybernetics and Narration
by Project Muse, Clarke, Bruce
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke's project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory as he declares the era of the cyborg to have ended. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study …