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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Keti Chukhrov Abstract This article maps the differences in the application of systems method in Marxist dialectics, cybernetics, and poststructuralism. It studies the impact of algorithmic rationality on the speculative lexicons of philosophy—especially when philosophical dialectics is defined...
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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 (2024) 33 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Won Jeon In sum, the postwar project of cybernetics would have been little more than a weird and aggressively male-dominated intellectual fad were it not for its revived usefulness in comprehending the profound impacts of the political economy of information on the movement of labor...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., “The Theory of Complex Phenomena.” The term pattern recognition was popularized by Selfridge and Neisser, “Pattern Recognition by Machine.” Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 Friedrich Hayek cybernetics neoliberalism artificial intelligence connectionism Mind thus...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in what follows as organogenesis, whether this is endosomatic or exosomatic). 1 There have 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...
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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...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 199–231.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... In a systems framework, the viewer of Autonomy Cube 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...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
...; the other, the anxious understanding that this attempt has failed. I consider the brain an organ of world making, where, through the material process of perception, the nervous system receives and responds to a world that it physically builds. I consider the brain cybernetic on account of the digital...
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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...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
... : Princeton University Press , 1978 . Wiener Norbert . Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine . 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1965 . Wilden Anthony . “ Analog and Digital Communication: On Negation, Signification, and Meaning .” In System...
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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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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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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of this entanglement, thinking as such cannot directly grasp it as its object, and both Derrida and Stiegler 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...