Emergence and embodiment : new essays on second-order systems theory / edited by Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Bruce, 1950-

Hansen, Mark B. N. (Mark Boris Nicola), 1965-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Science and cultural theory.

Science and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybernetics.

System theory.

Autopoiesis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Neocybernetic emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen

Interview with Heinz Von Foerster / interviewer, Bruce Clarke

Heinz Von Foerster's demons : the emergence of second-order systems theory / Bruce Clarke

The early days of autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela

Life and mind : from autopoiesis to neurophenomenology / Evan Thompson

Beyond autopoiesis : inflections of emergence and politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi

System-environment hybrids / Mark B.N. Hansen

Self-organization and autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann

Space is the place : the laws of form and social systems / Michael Schiltz

Improvisation : form and event : a Spencer-Brownian calculation / Edgar Landgraf

Communication versus communion in modern psychic systems : Maturana, Luhmann and cognitive neurology / Linda Brigham

Meaning as event-machine, or systems theory and "The reconstruction of deconstruction" : Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe

Complex visuality : the radical middleground / Ira Livingston.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.

ISBN:

9786613036063

9781283036061

1283036061

9780822391388

0822391384

OCLC:

609924585