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Emergence and embodiment : new essays on second-order systems theory

Title
Emergence and embodiment : new essays on second-order systems theory / edited by Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Clarke, Bruce, 1950-
  • Hansen, Mark B. N. (Mark Boris Nicola), 1965-
Description
285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Science and cultural theory
Uniform Title
Science and cultural theory.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Neocybernetic Emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N. Hansen -- Interview with Heinz von Foerster / Bruce Clarke -- Heinz von Foerster's Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory / Bruce Clarke -- The Early Days of Autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela -- Life and Mind: From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology / Evan Thompson -- Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi -- System-Environment Hybrids / Mark B. N. Hansen -- Self-Organization and Autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann -- Space Is the Place: The Laws of Form and Social Systems / Michael Schiltz -- Improvisation: Form and Event - A Spencer-Brownian Calculation / Edgar Landgraf -- Communication versus Communion in Modern Psychic Systems: Maturana, Luhmann, and Cognitive Neurology / Linda Brigham -- Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction": Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe -- Complex Visuality: The Radical Middleground / Ira Livingston.
ISBN
  • 9780822345817 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822345811 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822346005 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822346001 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009012702
OCLC
  • ocn317824540
  • 317824540
  • SCSB-5496569
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries