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Author: Bruce Clarke ,
Mark B. N. Hansen
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780822346005
ISBN 10: 0822346001
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 30 October 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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, post-structuralism, and post-humanism. Here they demonstrate the viability of neo-cybernetics as a resource for resolving the dilemmas of the post-human raised by newer fields of artificial life, complexity theory, and cellular automata. Tim Lenoir, 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 the 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
""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, post-structuralism, and post-humanism. Here they demonstrate the viability of neo-cybernetics as a resource for resolving the dilemmas of the post-human raised by newer fields of artificial life, complexity theory, and cellular automata."" Tim Lenoir, 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 the 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
Author Information
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.
