Description: Cybernetic Brain : Sketches of Another Future, Paperback by Pickering, Andrew, ISBN 0226667901, ISBN-13 9780226667904, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics&; impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.
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Book Title: Cybernetic Brain : Sketches of Another Future
Number of Pages: 536 Pages
Publication Name: Cybernetic Brain : Sketches of Another Future
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Neuroscience, General, System Theory, Europe / Great Britain / General, History, Cybernetics
Item Weight: 26.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Computers, Science, History, Medical
Author: Andrew Pickering
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
