The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

by Daniel Belgrad

Book Overview

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback." But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamics of self-regulating systems, which correct their actions by feeding their effects back into themselves. By the early 1970s, feedback had become the governing trope for a counterculture that was reoriented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022665253X
• ISBN13: 9780226652535
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"