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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...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to highlight Tiqqun’s analysis of belief and circulation in The Cybernetic Hypothesis : The sectors of control and communication develop because commodity valorization requires the organization of a closed loop of information circulation, parallel with the circulation of commodities, the production...
Journal Article
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
... from the
thriving pop-cybernetics discourse of the 1960s, Joselit engages
sources ranging from presidential debates and national newscasts
to bug-spray commercials and I Love Lucy, treating them as inter-
related parts of a larger adaptive environment. In doing so, he seeks
to show how...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
... enterprise; what are its concerns, its objects of inquiry; where does it locate the important moments of tension; and what are the manner and methods of its mode of investigation? For example, the interview asks how we ought to grapple with an ascendant cybernetics that is not merely a command-and-control...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 June 2018
... becomes a participant imbricated within the structural blueprint of the installation as a technological component that reproduces the hotspot’s behavior. Within the cybernetic tradition, this aspect of the systemic model is formalized as autopoiesis, generally defined as a self-sustaining pattern...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
...: 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 organization, no one molecule is more important than another. 24 Evelyn Fox Keller...
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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
... Is Hauntology?” ; Blanco and Peeren, Spectralities Reader ; and Shaw, Hauntology . 26. See Morton, Ghosts , 129–45 . 25. In Wiener, Cybernetics , 132 . 24. The substantiality of the ghost is complicated in the classical Chinese tradition, where ghosts are both represented...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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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...
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 (2023) 32 (2): 301–339.
Published: 01 December 2023
... recommendation system, it is important to remember that the correspondence is a product of engineering and cybernetic control rather than what we might otherwise perceive as the passive reflection of an authentic, true self. Crucially, the temporal transformations heralded by the shift to predictive media...
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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