Neocybernetics and narrative / / Bruce Clarke

• Autore: Clarke Bruce
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 808
• Soggetto topico: Narration (Rhetoric); Cybernetics in literature; System theory in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Neocybernetics and narrative
• ISBN: 1-4529-4215-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787126303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Posthumanities ; ; 29.