The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

by Andrew Pickering

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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.

The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226667901

ISBN13:9780226667904

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:536 Pages

Weight:1.67 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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