The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.
The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.
The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
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N003.5/12
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English
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xiii, 461p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. From Cybernetics to Machinic Philosophy -- 1. Cybernetics and the New Complexity of Machines -- 2. The In-Mixing of Machines: Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis -- 3. Machinic Philosophy: Assemblages, Information, Chaotic Flow -- II. Machinic Life -- 4. Vital Cells: Cellular Automata, Artificial life...
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2008.
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"Drawing on the publications of scientists as well as a range of work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, but always with the primary focus on the "objects at hand" - the machines, programs, and processes that constitute machinic life - Johnston shows how they come about, how they operate, and how they are already changing. This underst...
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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.
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"A Bradford book".
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-451) and index.
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c2008.
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N003.5/12
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9780262101264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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003.5
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991000966269702626
