Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.
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Cybernetics Books

Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

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“ Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in the countless Hertzian ramifications of waves and circuits. This is not science fiction, merely a generalization of McLuhan's theory of the 'extensions of man' . Every aspect of human beings - their bodies in their biological, mental, muscular or cerebral manifestations - now floats free in the shape of mechanical or computer-aided replacement parts. McLuhan, however, conceives of all ...more ”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

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“ Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear. ...more ”
― Leon Courville

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