Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas, Thomas Rid delivers a thought-provoking portrait of our technology-enraptured era.

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 work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics' impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende.

A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.

W. Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems. His books introduced exact and logical thinking into the nascent discipline and were highly influential.

Norbert Wiener coined the term 'cybernetics'. In God & Golem, Inc., he concerns himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues. It is based on lectures given at Yale, at the Société Philosophique de Royaumont, and elsewhere.

In this work living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in­teracting systems, but as self-contained unities.

A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics. In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological.

This book was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science--claims that have since become highly influential. Through this cross-fertilization of disparate fields of study, The Embodied Mind introduced a new form of cognitive science called "enaction," in which both the environment and first person experience are aspects of embodiment.

Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cybernetics. These transcripts are supplemented with an introduction by Claus Pias that charts the significance of the Macy conferences to the history of science.

Gregory Bateson (1904 – 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a "meta-science" of epistemology to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developing in various fields of science. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979)

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.

This book is an anthology of works by Gregory Bateson who was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet. It examines the nature of the mind considering it as a network of interactions linking individuals with their society and their species and with the universe at large.

This book is by Norbert Wiener generally considered the founding thinker of cybernetics. It can be described as the study of the interactions between computers and the human nervous system.

This book discusses the interactions between technology, communication, and society, delving into automation, cybernetics and their societal impact.

This is a catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition entitled Cybernetic Serendipity curated by Jasia Reichardt and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968. The introduction by Jasia Reichardt is an overview of cybernetics and its founder, Norbert Wiener and of the relationship between cybernetics and arts.

This book deals with system theory, cybernetics, and the theory of knowledge. It explores the intricacies of observing and understanding complex systems, shedding light on how we perceive and interact with the world around us.

Custodians and Midwives is the outcome of a research collaboration between the National Library of Australia (NLA) and the new School of Cybernetics (SoCy) at the Australian National University (ANU). In Custodians and Midwives, we take a cybernetic systems approach to the questions of how new and emerging technology capabilities might shape and be shaped by the future of the NLA.

This volume explores the field of management cybernetics by comparing the structures of the human nervous system and the organisational structures of a firm.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science-fiction play written by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. which introduced the word “robot” to the English language R.U.R. deals with the issues of humanity, ethics, and the impact of technological advancements on humanity..