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Claus Pias (ed.): Cybernetics

Claus Pias (ed.)

Cybernetics
The Macy Conferences 1946–1953. The Complete Transactions

With a foreword by Claus Pias

Softcover, 736 pages

Content
  • media theory
  • media studies
  • sociology
  • mathematics
  • regulation
  • history of science
  • computational sciences
  • history of knowledge
  • theory construction
  • epistemology
  • Cybernetics
  • history of technology
  • computer science
  • historic documents

“The result of this breathtaking enterprise was nothing less than a new way of looking at human beings.” — N. Katherine Hayles: How We Became Posthuman

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Claus Pias

is Professor for History and Epistemology of Media at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lueneburg, where he is also director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) and the Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Main areas of interest are the media history and epistemology of computer simulations, the history of media studies, and the history and epistemology of cybernetics.
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