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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.

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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.

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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.

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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston.

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Publisher

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.

Call Numbers

N003.5/12

Record Identifier

74VMj2DLbvE3

MMS ID

991000966269702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

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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Publisher

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

c2008.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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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Notes

General note

"A Bradford book".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-451) and index.

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Date Copyright

c2008.

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Call Numbers

N003.5/12

Record Identifier

74VMj2DLbvE3

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMj2DLbvE3

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ISBN

9780262101264 (hardcover : alk. paper)

DDC

003.5

MMS ID

991000966269702626

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