Neocybernetics and narrative / Bruce Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Bruce, author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 29.

Posthumanities ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Cybernetics in literature.

System theory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke's project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory's potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory. A pioneer of systems narratology, Clarke offers readers a synthesis of the neocybernetic theories of cognition formulated by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, incubated by cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, and cu

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 1, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4529-4215-3

OCLC:

896796265