Clarke / Hansen / Smith Emergence and Embodiment

New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9138-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Bruce

Hansen, Mark B. N.

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Neocybernetic Emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N26. Hansen 1

Interview with Heinz von Foerster / Interviewer: Bruce Clarke 26

Heinz von Foerster's Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory / Bruce Clarke 34

The Early Days of Autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela 62

Life and Mind: From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology / Evan Tompson 77

Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi 94

System-Environment Hybrids / Mark B. N. Hansen 113

Self-Organization and Autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann 143

Space is the Place: The Laws of Form and Social Systems / Michael Schiltz 157

Improvisation: Form and Event—A Spencer-Brownian Calculation / Edgar Landgraf 179

Communication versus Communion in Modern Psychic Systems: Maturana, Lohmann, and Cognitive Neurology / Linda Brigham 205

Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction": Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe 220

Complex Visuality: The Radical Middleground / Ira Livingston 246

Bibliography 263

Contributors 279

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Clarke is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and a past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His books include Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics.Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of Literature at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media and Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media.