Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009387484)

Cybernetic Aesthetics draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret the communication structures and reading strategies that modernist text cultivate. In doing so, Heather A. Love shows how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II; they flourished in the literature of modernism's most innovative authors. This book engages a range of literary authors, including Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, and cybernetics theorists, such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Ross Ashby, Silvan Tomkins, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Mary Catherine Bateson. Through comparative analysis, Love uncovers cybernetics' relevance to modernism and articulates modernism's role in shaping the cultural conditions that produced not merely technological cybernetics, but also the more diffuse notion of cybernetic thinking that still exerts its influence today.

Author: Heather A. Love
ISBN-10: 1009387480
ISBN-13: 9781009387484
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2023
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d