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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 185–207.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Luciana Parisi; William Morgan Abstract This interview with the digital media theorist Luciana Parisi opens with the hypothesis that cybernetics is not merely the name for that postwar metascience of command and control. For Parisi, cybernetics names a “historical reconfiguration of metaphysics...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., Cybernetic Hypothesis , 27 . 27. Crowther-Heyck, “Defining the Computer,” 58 . 28. Crowther-Heyck, “Defining the Computer,” 59 . 29. Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon , 467 . 30. Alliez and Lazzarato, Wars and Capital . 31. Noble, Forces of Production , 58...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 Friedrich Hayek cybernetics neoliberalism artificial intelligence connectionism Mind thus becomes to me a continuous stream of impulses, the significance of each and every contribution of which is determined by the place in the pattern...
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The New Conflict of the Faculties and Functions: Quasi-Causality and Serendipity in the Anthropocene
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... also been countless attempts to transplant the concepts of entropy and negentropy to the fields of information theory, cybernetics, communication theories, systems theories, and complexity theory, all in the pursuit, ultimately, of various attempts to formalize the human sciences and social sciences...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 December 2007
... public sphere during the era of network television's dom-
inance, dating from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. Positioning
his work as a form of "media ecology," a term adopted from the
thriving pop-cybernetics discourse of the 1960s, Joselit engages
sources ranging from presidential debates...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
... (belief in) the ubiquity of networks and late capitalism, that is, capitalism with cybernetic characteristics? Just as Galloway has pointed toward contemporary beliefs in networks, we ask whether belief is inherently networked and to what degree political-theological questions are themselves machinic...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 June 2018
... behaviors for reproducing its own organization. In 1960s second-wave cybernetics, autopoiesis was emphasized as a recursive model—such that the system’s structure was regenerated in response to changing external conditions—but from the 1980s onward the so-called third wave of cybernetics replaced...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and Rudge, “CJD Mimics and Chameleons,” 116. N. Katherine Hayles, in How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics , describes how Maturana and Varela deprivileged the role of DNA with the concept of autopoiesis, where in the cell’s attempt to reproduce its own...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 283–288.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011.
Medina, Eden. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in
Allende’s Chile. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.
Meister, Robert. After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights. New York: Co-
lumbia University Press...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., Cybernetics , 132 . 26. See Morton, Ghosts , 129–45 . 27. Derrida introduces the term hauntology in Specters of Marx , 10–12 . See also Fisher, “What Is Hauntology?” ; Blanco and Peeren, Spectralities Reader ; and Shaw, Hauntology . 28. Derrida, Specters of Marx , 6...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to Claude Shannon’s infor-
mation theory. Dudley’s colleague Lloyd Espenschied insisted that
the vocoder “philosophy” underlay both information theory and
cybernetics:
In the last decade or so there has taken shape a new philosoph-
ic appreciation of what is involved...
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“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
... seem to suggest that its thinkability must await apposite circumstances. At various points in Of Grammatology , for example, Derrida suggests that the cybernetic concept of the “program” troubles the distinction between the old differentiation of teleological thought and mechanical nature by making...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in the Cybernetic Fold,” Sedgwick and
Adam Frank cite a long passage from Silvan Tomkins’s Affect Im-
agery Consciousness whose rhythms, they note, “remind one of
Gertrude Stein’s”: “If you like to be looked at and I like to look
at you, we may achieve an enjoyable interpersonal relationship...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2003
...,
but the structure of the Net is such that it is impossible to com-
pletely avoid "break-ins." This is so because the network is
designed in relation to principles of cybernetic theory. It was engi-
neered to transfer data as quickly as possible, and to reduce noise
to a minimum. To accomplish these technical...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of heroic individualism and forward
to the transcendentalism of certain contemporary cybernetic sub-
cultures. The differences between the two are far from trivial, as are
the overlaps. But if this story has a moral, it is that overt ideologies
are perhaps fatally...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
... This critique would later form part of his critique of early neu-
Geroulanos: Violence and Mechanism 141
roscientifi c reductions of thought to the brain.41 No less pronounced
was his suspicion of cybernetics, beginning in the early 1950s, and its
use in theories...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 35–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to a manipulable object that humans can
remake at will, without paying the environmental cost of their disas-
trous manipulations. For James Lovelock, who introduced the “Gaia
hypothesis” with Lynn Margulis, Earth is a “vast being,” a “complex
entity” constituting “a feedback or cybernetic...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 65–93.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-
enological and late cybernetic theories of cognition, such as that of
Rosch, Varela, and Thompson, laudably conceive cognition not as
mental representation but as embodied, sensory- motor patterns that
are shaped by the environment and that in turn enable perception
and action within...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 423–490.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., a completely dark room was illuminated only by the projector’s ray, which cast on the wall a chain of names, one after another: Felix Dzerzhinsky, a key man behind the creation of what would become the Soviet KGB later; Alyaksandr Malinovsky, a founder of cybernetics; Chaim Azriel Weizmann, the first president...
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