Entrée principale:

Pickering, Andrew, 1948-

Titre et auteur:

The cybernetic brain : sketches of another future / Andrew Pickering.

Édition:

Pbk. ed.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description:

x, 526 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-502) and index.
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 Op Cybernetics -- Rodney Brooks And Robotics -- Cora And Machina Docihls -- Cybernetics And Madness -- Strange Performances -- Flicker -- Flicker And The Sixties -- Biofeedback And New Music -- Ross Ashby: Psychiatry, Synthetic Brains, And Cybernetics /Si -- 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, Kadffman, 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 -- Codpled 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 Ik Practice -- Chile: Project Cybersyn -- The Politics Of The Vsm -- The Political Critique of Cybernetics -- On Goals -- The Politics Op 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 on 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.

ISBN:

9780226667904 (pbk.)
0226667901 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Cybernetics.
Cybernetics History.
Brain.
Self-organizing systems.
Cybernétique.
Cybernétique Histoire.
Cerveau.
Systèmes auto-organisés.
cybernetics.
brains.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 289239
Cote: BIB 231534
Statut: Disponible