Neocybernetics and Narrative - Posthumanities - Bruce Clarke - Libros - University of Minnesota Press - 9780816691029 - 21 de septiembre de 2014
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Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke?s project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory?s potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory.


A pioneer of systems narratology, Clarke offers readers a synthesis of the neocybernetic theories of cognition formulated by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, incubated by cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, and cultivated in Niklas Luhmann?s social systems theory. From this foundation, he interrogates media theory and narrative theory through a critique of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke?s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. Dalloway and Mind of My Mind), movies (Avatar, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and even Aramis, Bruno Latour?s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway.


Clarke declares the era of the cyborg to have ended, laid to rest as the ontology of technical objects is brought into differential coordination with operations of living, psychic, and social systems. The second-order discourse of cognition destabilizes the usual sense of cognition as conscious awareness, revealing the possibility of nonconscious and nonhuman forms of sentience.

240 pages, 8 black & white illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 21 de septiembre de 2014
ISBN13 9780816691029
Editores University of Minnesota Press
Páginas 248
Dimensiones 163 × 216 × 13 mm   ·   294 g
Lengua Inglés  

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