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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Love, Heather Allison

Titel

Cybernetic aesthetics : modernist networks of information and data

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references
• Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature -- Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission -- The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves -- Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist -- Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.
• "In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"--