... This chapter directs attention to the site of a redefinition of technologies of mediation that can be located at the 1970s World Expo in Osaka: the field of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts...

... control cybernetics destructive plasticity horror Deleuze Burroughs ...

... cybernetics information society Isozaki Arata metabolism biopolitics ...

... second-order cybernetics social systems theory radical constructivism Niklas Luhmann Emmanuel Levinas ...

... This chapter situates Malabou’s discussion of destructive plasticity in the history and politics of the cybernetics movement. The central theme is how the concept of control changes as humans become aware of the capacity to steer and shape the plasticity of the brain-body network. The chapter...

... of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts to rethink media’s relationship to the environment. Focusing on the formative role of Tange Lab and the work of associated architects Tange Kenzo and Isozaki Arata...

... of intersubjectivity as lived immediacy, as a precognitive sensibility, can provide an ethical grounding for a vision of improvised music, and of the world, as a place of continuing interlinked performances. second-order cybernetics social systems theory radical constructivism Niklas Luhmann Emmanuel Levinas ...

... sensibility, can provide an ethical grounding for a vision of improvised music, and of the world, as a place of continuing interlinked performances. second-order cybernetics social systems theory radical constructivism Niklas Luhmann Emmanuel Levinas In September 2007, jazz pianist Art Tatum...