The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future [Original retail ed.] 0226667901, 978-0226667904

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in

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English Pages 538 Year 15 Apr 2010

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future [Original retail ed.]
0226667901, 978-0226667904

Commentary
"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

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