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Imperial Media : Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857–1918 / by Worth, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Imperial cybernetics -- Imperial projections -- Imperial transmissions -- Imperial informatics -- Coda. …”
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The search for a theory of cognition early mechanisms and new ideas /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The cybernetic suburb -- pt. 2. AI's peripheries -- pt. 3. …”
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The search for a theory of cognition early mechanisms and new ideas /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The cybernetic suburb -- pt. 2. AI's peripheries -- pt. 3. …”
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The Power of Systems : How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World /

The power of systems : how policy sciences opened up the Cold War world /

by Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė

Table of Contents: “…The rise of system-cybernetic governmentality -- Grey eminences of the scientific-technical revolution -- Bridging East and West: the birth of IIASA -- Shaping a transnational systems community (1): networks and institutions -- Shaping a transnational systems community (2): family versus war room -- The East-West politics of global modelling -- From nuclear winter to the Anthropocene -- Acid rain: scientific expertise and governance across systemic divide -- The avant-garde of system-cybernetic governmentality.…”
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The Power of Systems : How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World /

The power of systems : how policy sciences opened up the Cold War world /

by Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė

Table of Contents: “…The rise of system-cybernetic governmentality -- Grey eminences of the scientific-technical revolution -- Bridging East and West: the birth of IIASA -- Shaping a transnational systems community (1): networks and institutions -- Shaping a transnational systems community (2): family versus war room -- The East-West politics of global modelling -- From nuclear winter to the Anthropocene -- Acid rain: scientific expertise and governance across systemic divide -- The avant-garde of system-cybernetic governmentality.…”
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The pathological family Cold War America and the rise of family therapy / by Weinstein, Deborah, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the power of the family -- Personality factories -- "Systems everywhere" : schizophrenia, cybernetics, and the double bind -- The culture concept at work -- Observational practices and natural habitats -- Visions of family life.…”
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The pathological family Cold War America and the rise of family therapy / by Weinstein, Deborah, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the power of the family -- Personality factories -- "Systems everywhere" : schizophrenia, cybernetics, and the double bind -- The culture concept at work -- Observational practices and natural habitats -- Visions of family life.…”
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Communication, media, and identity : a Christian theory of communication / by Fortner, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Communication as if people mattered -- Communication as art -- Communication and culture -- Communication, information, and knowledge -- Christian intimacy and the self in a digital world -- Communicating in cybernetic culture -- Implications.…”

Communication, media, and identity : a Christian theory of communication / by Fortner, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Communication as if people mattered -- Communication as art -- Communication and culture -- Communication, information, and knowledge -- Christian intimacy and the self in a digital world -- Communicating in cybernetic culture -- Implications.…”

Friendship fictions the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / by Kaplan, Michael A., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Imagining citizenship as friendship -- friendship and the politics of community: The big chill -- Friendship, rebel-citizenship, and the feminist critique of liberalism: Thelma & Louise -- Liberalism, friendship, and the predicament of cybernetic sociality: Lost in translation -- Race, friendship, and the speculative politics of infinite debt: Smoke -- Conclusion: the friendship supplement and the rule of allegory.…”
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Friendship fictions the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / by Kaplan, Michael A., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Imagining citizenship as friendship -- friendship and the politics of community: The big chill -- Friendship, rebel-citizenship, and the feminist critique of liberalism: Thelma & Louise -- Liberalism, friendship, and the predicament of cybernetic sociality: Lost in translation -- Race, friendship, and the speculative politics of infinite debt: Smoke -- Conclusion: the friendship supplement and the rule of allegory.…”
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The spiv and the architect unruly life in postwar London / by Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.…”
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The spiv and the architect unruly life in postwar London / by Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.…”
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Kybernetes .

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Biologically inspired robotics

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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Christopher Cohoon -- Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller -- Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann -- Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. …”
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