The cybernetic brain [electronic resource] : sketches of another future / Andrew Pickering.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pickering, Andrew, 1948-
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Cybernetics.
Cybernetics > History.
Brain.
Self-organizing systems.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Psychiatry 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.