The cybernetic brain:sketches of another future
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago London |
Publication Dates: | c2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 526 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780226667898 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226667898 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226667904 (paper) 0226667901 (paper) |
Index Number: | TP273 |
CLC: | TP273 |
Call Number: | TP273/P595 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-502) and index. "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 co |