Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory

by Mark B.N. Hansen

Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics--the study of communication and control systems--was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergence and Embodiment, Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N. Hansen focus on cybernetic developments that stem from the second-order turn in the 1970s, when the cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster catalyzed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346001
• ISBN13: 9780822346005
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"