{"product_id":"cybernetic-existentialism-steve-dixon-9780367142490","title":"Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-For-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the 'universal science' of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists' works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and \u003ci\u003ebeing-for-others\u003c\/i\u003e. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and 'noise', feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDixon's groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 036714249X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367142490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Steve Dixon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48135985889535,"sku":"9780367142490","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39545c43-9beb-4a90-9115-f6554d9a90ff.jpg?v=1770159751","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cybernetic-existentialism-steve-dixon-9780367142490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}