The cybernetic brain
Subtitle: sketches of another future
By: Andrew Pickering.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226667898
Subjects: Cybernetics; Cybernetics -- History; Brain; Self-organizing systems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychiatry to cybernetics; title: Grey Walter: from electroshock to the psychedelic sixties; title: The tortoise and the brain; title: Tortoise ontology; title: Tortoises as not-brains; title: The social basis of cybernetics; title: Rodney Brooks and robotics; title: Cora and machina docilis; title: Cybernetics and madness; title: Strange performances; title: Flicker; title: Flicker and the sixties; title: Biofeedback and new music; title: Ross Ashby: psychiatry, synthetic brains, and cybernetics; title: The pathological brain; title: Ashby's hobby; title: The homeostat; title: The homeostat as ontological theater; title: The social basis of Ashby's cybernetics; title: Design for a brain; title: Dams; title: Madness revisited; title: Adaptation, war, and society; title: Cybernetics as a theory of everything; title: Cybernetics and epistemology; title: A new kind of science: Alexander, Kauffman, and Wolfram; title: Gregory Bateson and R. D. Laing: symmetry, psychiatry, and the sixties; title: Gregory Bateson; title: Schizophrenia and enlightenment; title: Therapy; title: As nomad; title: R. D. Laing; title: On therapy; title: Kingsley Hall; title: Archway; title: Coupled becomings, inner voyages, aftermath; title: Psychiatry and the sixties; title: Ontology, power, and revealing; title: Beyond the brain; title: Stafford Beer: from the cybernetic factory to tantric yoga; title: From operations research to cybernetics; title: Toward the cybernetic factory; title: Biological computing; title: Ontology and design; title: The social basis of Beer's cybernetics; title: The afterlife of biological computing; title: The viable system model; title: The VSM as ontology and epistemology; title: The VSM in practice; title: Chile: project cybersyn; title: The politics of the VSM; title: The political critique of cybernetics; title: On goals; title: The politics of interacting systems; title: Team syntegrity; title: Cybernetics and spirituality; title: Hylozoism; title: Tantrism; title: Brian Eno and new music; title: Gordon Pask: from chemical computers to adaptive archictecture; title: Musicolour; title: The history of musicolour; title: Musicolour and ontology; title: Ontology and aesthetics; title: The social basis of Pask's cybernetics; title: Training machines; title: Teaching machines; title: Chemical computers; title: Threads; title: New senses; title: The epistemology of cybernetic research; title: Cas, social science, and F-22s; title: The arts and the sixties; title: Cybernetic theater; title: Cybernetic serendipity; title: The social basis again; title: The fun palace; title: After the sixties: adaptive architecture; title: Sketches of another future; title: Themes from the history of cybernetics; title: Ontology; title: Design; title: Power; title: The arts; title: Selves; title: Spirituality; title: The sixties; title: Altered states; title: The social basis; title: Sketches of another future.