Cybernetics for the 21st Century

Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical and critical reflections on the subject - which according to Martin Heidegger marked the completion of Western metaphysics. In this anthology, historians, philosophers, sociologists and media studies scholars explore the history of cyber...

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Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol.1 is dedicated to the epistemological reconstruction of cybernetics, consisting of a series of historical and critical reflections on the subject - which according to Martin Heidegger marked the completion of Western metaphysics. In this anthology, historians, philosophers, sociologists and media studies scholars explore the history of cybernetics from Leibniz to artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as the development of twentieth-century cybernetics in various geographical regions in the world, from the USA to the Soviet Union, Latin America, France, Poland, China and Japan. The reconstruction shows the various paths of cybernetics and their socio-political implications, which remain unfamiliar to us today. It reveals more than what we thought we knew — and yet we hardly know - and allows us to understand where we are and to reflect on the future of technology, ecology and planetary politics.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Cybernetics Now? (Yuk Hui)
Part I: Maps
Translating Rationalism: Leibniz and Cybernetics (Brunella Antomarini)
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Cybernetics Now? (Yuk Hui)
Part I: Maps
Translating Rationalism: Leibniz and Cybernetics (Brunella Antomarini)
Machine and Ecology (Yuk Hui)
Ontology and the Politics of Information in the first Cybernetics (Mathieu Triclot)
Detoxifying Cybernetics: From Homeostasis to Autopoiesis and Beyond (N.Katherine Hayles)
James Lovelock, Gaia, and the Remembering of Biological Being (Dorion Sagan)
Part II: Territories
Cybernetics in Britain (Andrew Pickering)
Cybernetics Across Cultures: The Localization of the Universal (Slava Gerovitch)
Cybernetics, Communism, and Romanticism: Cybernetic Thinking in the Polish People's Republic and in the Pre-Cybernetic Era (Michal Krzykawski)
A Brief History of Chinese Cybernetics (Dylan Levi King)
Why Did Cybernetics Disappear from Latin America? An Incomplete Timeline (David Maulen de los Reyes)
Life-in-formation: Cybernetics of the Heart (Daisuke Harashima)
Biographies
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