Cybernetic Aesthetics by Heather A Love
Cybernetic Aesthetics draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret the communication structures and reading strategies that modernist text cultivate. In doing so, Heather A. Love shows how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II; they flourished in the literature of modernism's most innovative authors. This book engages a range of literary authors, including Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, and cybernetics theorists, such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Ross Ashby, Silvan Tomkins, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Mary Catherine Bateson. Through comparative analysis, Love uncovers cybernetics' relevance to modernism and articulates modernism's role in shaping the cultural conditions that produced not merely technological cybernetics, but also the more diffuse notion of cybernetic thinking that still exerts its influence today.
Heather A. Love is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. Her work on modernist literature and on the cultural and intellectual history of cybernetics has appeared in Modernism/ modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, Feminist Modernist Studies, and New Literary History as well as the more tech-focused IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009387484 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009387480 |
| Title | Cybernetic Aesthetics |
| Author | Heather A Love |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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