LEADER 06022nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910824765203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53815-2 010 $a9786612538155 010 $a0-226-66792-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226667928 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019008 035 $a(EBL)530446 035 $a(OCoLC)615626770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12302965 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10749026 035 $a(PQKB)10961592 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10415896 035 $a(PQKB)11686824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC530446 035 $a(DE-B1597)523169 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226667928 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL530446 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386301 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038264 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038264 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019008 100 $a20090608d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 181 $csti$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe cybernetic brain $esketches of another future /$fAndrew Pickering 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (x, 526 pages) : ?b illustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Pickering, Andrew. Cybernetic brain. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226667898 (DLC) 2009023367 (OCoLC)401714409 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPsychiatry to cybernetics -- Grey Walter: from electroshock to the psychedelic sixties -- The tortoise and the brain -- Tortoise ontology -- Tortoises as not-brains -- The social basis of cybernetics -- Rodney Brooks and robotics -- Cora and machina docilis -- Cybernetics and madness -- Strange performances -- Flicker -- Flicker and the sixties -- Biofeedback and new music -- Ross Ashby: psychiatry, synthetic brains, and cybernetics -- The pathological brain -- Ashby's hobby -- The homeostat -- The homeostat as ontological theater -- The social basis of Ashby's cybernetics -- Design for a brain -- Dams -- Madness revisited -- Adaptation, war, and society -- Cybernetics as a theory of everything -- Cybernetics and epistemology -- A new kind of science: Alexander, Kauffman, and Wolfram -- Gregory Bateson and R.D. Laing: symmetry, psychiatry, and the sixties -- Gregory Bateson -- Schizophrenia and enlightenment -- Therapy -- As nomad -- R.D. Laing -- On therapy -- Kingsley Hall -- Archway -- Coupled becomings, inner voyages, aftermath -- Psychiatry and the sixties -- Ontology, power, and revealing -- Beyond the brain -- Stafford Beer: from the cybernetic factory to tantric yoga -- From operations research to cybernetics -- Toward the cybernetic factory -- Biological computing -- Ontology and design -- The social basis of Beer's cybernetics -- The afterlife of biological computing -- The viable system model -- The VSM as ontology and epistemology -- The VSM in practice -- Chile: project cybersyn -- The politics of the VSM -- The political critique of cybernetics -- On goals -- The politics of interacting systems -- Team syntegrity -- Cybernetics and spirituality -- Hylozoism -- Tantrism -- Brian Eno and new music -- Gordon Pask: from chemical computers to adaptive archictecture -- Musicolour -- The history of musicolour -- Musicolour and ontology -- Ontology and aesthetics -- The social basis of Pask's cybernetics -- Training machines -- Teaching machines -- Chemical computers -- Threads -- New senses -- The epistemology of cybernetic research -- Cas, social science, and F-22s --The arts and the sixties -- Cybernetic theater -- Cybernetic serendipity -- The social basis again --The fun palace -- After the sixties: adaptive architecture -- Sketches of another future -- Themes from the history of cybernetics -- Ontology -- Design -- Power -- The arts -- Selves -- Spirituality -- The sixties -- Altered states -- The social basis -- Sketches of another future. 330 $aCybernetics 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 1940's 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. 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