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cybernetics (en)

(noun plural but singular in construction) the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems (as the nervous system and brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems)

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cybernetics


Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton


Yury Lotman used the imagery of cybernetics to show how the poem formed a complex organic totality

—p.112 Structuralism and Semiotics (91) by Terry Eagleton
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9 years ago

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes

The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes


It was Wiener who coined the word 'cybernetics' from the ancient Greek word for a helmsman: kybernetes

—p.271 Planning by whom and for what? The battle for control from the Soviet Union to Walmart (251) by Bob Hughes
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9 years, 1 month ago