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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 750 ratings — published 1948
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 903 ratings — published 1949
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 132 ratings — published 2010
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 895 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 127 ratings — published 1956
Brain of the Firm (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.31 — 124 ratings — published 1972
Designing Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 177 ratings — published 1974
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,468 ratings — published 1972
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
by (shelved 17 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 804 ratings — published
Design for a Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 48 ratings — published 1952
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 311 ratings — published 2011
The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 14 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 275 ratings — published 2001
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,706 ratings — published 1992
Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2002
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)
by (shelved 13 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 330 ratings — published 1973
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.38 — 681 ratings — published 1949
The Heart of Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 61 ratings — published 1979
God & Golem, Inc. (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.57 — 269 ratings — published 1964
The Computer and the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 818 ratings — published 1958
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 27,990 ratings — published 1960
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,868 ratings — published 1990
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 24 ratings — published 2002
Diagnosing the System for Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 51 ratings — published 1985
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 114 ratings — published 2004
Laws of Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 145 ratings — published 1969
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 454 ratings — published 2016
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 135 ratings — published 1991
Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,022 ratings — published 1979
Platform for Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 47 ratings — published 1975
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 668 ratings — published 2006
Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,210 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,265 ratings — published 1991
Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 46 ratings — published 2001
Cybernetics Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1991
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,405 ratings — published 2008
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 798 ratings — published 1961
Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics (Volume 9, No.2, 2001) - Francisco J. Varela 1946-2001
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 5.00 — 7 ratings — published 2004
Decision and Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.32 — 47 ratings — published 1966
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,311 ratings — published 1984
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 358,576 ratings — published 1984
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1: Epistemological Reconstruction (Philosophy, Art and Technology)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,966 ratings — published 2011
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 172 ratings — published 2015
Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy Book 1)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 60 ratings — published
The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 33 ratings — published 2015
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 300 ratings — published
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 239 ratings — published 1995
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 33 ratings — published 2002
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... Here, each term is the sum of the previous two terms. The phenomenon is well known and called phyllotaxis. Many are the efforts of biologists to understand why pinecones, sunflowers, and many other plants exhibit this remarkable pattern. Organisms do the strangest things, but all these odd things need not reflect selection or historical accident. Some of the best efforts to understand phyllotaxis appeal to a form of self-organization. Paul Green, at Stanford, has argued persuasively that the Fibonacci series is just what one would expects as the simplest self-repeating pattern that can be generated by the particular growth processes in the growing tips of the tissues that form sunflowers, pinecones, and so forth. Like a snowflake and its sixfold symmetry, the pinecone and its phyllotaxis may be part of order for free”
― At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
― At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are in an age where the enormous per capita bulk of communication is met by an ever-thinning stream of total bulk of communication. More and more we must accept a standardized inoffensive and insignificant product which, like the white bread of the bakeries, is made rather for its keeping and selling properties than for its food value.
This is fundamentally an external handicap of modern communication, but it is paralleled by another which gnaws from within. This is the cancer of creative narrowness and feebleness.
In the old days, the young man who wished to enter the creative arts might either have plunged in directly or prepared himself by a general schooling, perhaps irrelevant to the specific tasks he finally undertook, but which was at least a searching discipline of his abilities and taste. Now the channels of apprenticeship are largely silted up. Our elementary and secondary schools are more interested in formal classroom discipline than in the intellectual discipline of learning something thoroughly, and a great deal of the serious preparation for a scientific or a literary course is relegated to some sort of graduate school or other.”
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
This is fundamentally an external handicap of modern communication, but it is paralleled by another which gnaws from within. This is the cancer of creative narrowness and feebleness.
In the old days, the young man who wished to enter the creative arts might either have plunged in directly or prepared himself by a general schooling, perhaps irrelevant to the specific tasks he finally undertook, but which was at least a searching discipline of his abilities and taste. Now the channels of apprenticeship are largely silted up. Our elementary and secondary schools are more interested in formal classroom discipline than in the intellectual discipline of learning something thoroughly, and a great deal of the serious preparation for a scientific or a literary course is relegated to some sort of graduate school or other.”
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
