Emergence and embodiment
Subtitle: new essays on second-order systems theory
By: edited by Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen.
Contributors: Clarke, Bruce, 1950-; Hansen, Mark B. N. 1965-
Series: Science and cultural theory; Science and cultural theory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780822345817; 9780822346005
Subjects: Cybernetics; System theory; Autopoiesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neocybernetic emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen; title: Interview with Heinz Von Foerster / interviewer, Bruce Clarke; title: Heinz Von Foerster's demons : the emergence of second-order systems theory / Bruce Clarke; title: The early days of autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela; title: Life and mind : from autopoiesis to neurophenomenology / Evan Thompson; title: Beyond autopoiesis : inflections of emergence and politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi; title: System-environment hybrids / Mark B.N. Hansen; title: Self-organization and autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann; title: Space is the place : the laws of form and social systems / Michael Schiltz; title: Improvisation : form and event : a Spencer-Brownian calculation / Edgar Landgraf; title: Communication versus communion in modern psychic systems : Maturana, Luhmann and cognitive neurology / Linda Brigham; title: Meaning as event-machine, or systems theory and "The reconstruction of deconstruction" : Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe; title: Complex visuality : the radical middleground / Ira Livingston.