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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460349103321

Autore

Clarke Bruce

Titolo

Neocybernetics and narrative / / Bruce Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4215-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; 29

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Cybernetics in literature

System theory in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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