The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

by Andrew Pickering

Book Overview

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.

The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226667901
• ISBN13: 9780226667904
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"