The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future



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The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future Andrew Pickering
Language: English
Page: 536
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0226667898, 9780226667898
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"The Cybernetic Brain is a rich, ambitious, and highly original work—and a gently hopeful one. Pickering has really written two books in one. The first is a history of the work of several key British cyberneticians and its impact on subsequent scientific and cultural debates. The second is a quietly passionate critique of modernist ways of knowing and being and a plea for the reintroduction of the sorts of practice-based, adaptable, techno-social modes common to cybernetic inquiry. Pickering weaves the analysis and the advocacy together across the book, and his vision of what a non-modern world might look like—or in fact, has looked like—is novel and compelling and will substantially extend our understanding of contemporary technoculture."—Fred Turner, Stanford University

(Fred Turner )

"What a lovely book this is—it tells a great story from the history of cybernetics and at the same time examines in innovative ways the complex ontological work they were doing. Pickering shows how ''ontology'' is integrally about machines, materiality and philosophy—developing what I would call a theory of exploratory ontology."—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of Pittsburgh

(Geoffrey C. Bowker )

"By focusing on the developments in Britain, Andrew Pickering''s The Cybernetic Brain opens wide new vistas for exploring cybernetic practice and its legacy. For Pickering . . . cybernetics was primarily a science of the brain. As a protean science with connections to psychiatry, theater, music, politics, and counterculture, it was a lot more glamorous and fun than previous accounts of the field would have us believe."—Science (Science )

"Entertaining. . . . The Cybernetic Brain is the first book-length account of UK cybernetics pioneers."—Nature (Nature )

"A significant contribution to the field." (Choice )

About the Author

Andrew Pickering is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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