Emergence and Embodiment by Bruce Clarke

Emergence and Embodiment by Bruce Clarke

Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman.

“Emergence and Embodiment is an outstanding collection of sharp, well-crafted essays by prominent authors in the field of science and literature studies, all of whom have made major contributions to discussions of cybernetics, poststructuralism, and posthumanismHere they demonstrate the viability of neocybernetics as a resource for resolving the dilemmas of the posthuman raised by newer fields of artificial life, complexity theory, and cellular automata.”-Tim Lenoir, Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair of New Technologies and Society, Duke University “Emergence and Embodiment provides a useful overview and detailed analyses of the complex field of neocybernetics and its major thinkers. It indicates the significance and breadth of interdisciplinary work being done in the wake of Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Heinz von Foerster, and George Spencer-Brown, even as it makes demands on its readers to rethink some of their assumptions about he last forty years of ‘theory’ in the humanities and the interdisciplinary social sciences.”-Robert Markley, author of Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination

Bruce Clarke is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and a past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His books include Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics.

Mark B. N. Hansen is Professor of Literature at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media and Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media.

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ISBN 13	9780822346005
ISBN 10	0822346001
Titre	Emergence and Embodiment
Auteur	Bruce Clarke
Série	Science And Cultural Theory
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Duke University Press
Année de publication	2009-10-30
Nombre de pages	277
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