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Neocybernetics and Narrative

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Description for Neocybernetics and Narrative Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.

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 cultivated in Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. From this foundation, he interrogates media theory and narrative theory through a critique ... Read more

Clarke declares the era of the cyborg to have ended, laid to rest as the ontology of technical objects is brought into differential coordination with operations of living, psychic, and social systems. The second-order discourse of cognition destabilizes the usual sense of cognition as conscious awareness, revealing the possibility of nonconscious and nonhuman forms of sentience.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Series
Posthumanities
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691029
SKU
V9780816691029
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About Bruce Clarke
Bruce Clarke is chair in the Department of English and the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University.

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