Neocybernetics and Narrative: Posthumanities, cartea 29
Autor Bruce Clarkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2014
Neocybernetics
and
Narrativeopens
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 of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke’s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. DallowayandMind of My Mind), movies (Avatar,Memento, andEternalSunshine of the Spotless Mind), and evenAramis, Bruno Latour’s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway.
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.
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 of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke’s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. DallowayandMind of My Mind), movies (Avatar,Memento, andEternalSunshine of the Spotless Mind), and evenAramis, Bruno Latour’s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816691029
ISBN-10: 0816691029
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 8
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Seria Posthumanities
ISBN-10: 0816691029
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 8
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Seria Posthumanities
Notă biografică
Bruce Clarke is chair in the Department of English and the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University.
Cuprins
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 to Eternal Sunshine and Memento
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 and Félix Guattari to Avatar
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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 to Eternal Sunshine and Memento
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 and Félix Guattari to Avatar
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
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 of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke’s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. Dalloway and Mind of My Mind), movies (Avatar, Memento, and EternalSunshine of the Spotless Mind), and even Aramis, Bruno Latour’s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway.
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.
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 of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke’s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. Dalloway and Mind of My Mind), movies (Avatar, Memento, and EternalSunshine of the Spotless Mind), and even Aramis, Bruno Latour’s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway.
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.