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Frictions: Inquiries into Cybernetic Thinking and Its Attempts towards Mate[real]ization
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Abstract 'Frictions' is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations - or even, from their non-implementations. Through a series of case studies focused on cybernetics, systems research, and some of ... view more
'Frictions' is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations - or even, from their non-implementations. Through a series of case studies focused on cybernetics, systems research, and some of their more contemporary inheritors, this book argues that such a middle space, the topology of frictions, offers significant insights to assess the historical and epistemological relevance of these interconnected fields. Characterized here as cybernetic thinking, this broad area of theoretical and applied projects would conceal, precisely within its frictions, the operational principles of our present.... view less
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
media archaeology; cybernetics; systems research; media theory; media history
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
204 p.
ISBN
978-3-95796-217-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed