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The Fabulous Loop de Loop
The cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines
A project by Steve Rushton
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (NOT YET PUBLIC)
Contents
Introduction: The Foundations of Cybernetic Discourse
THE GOVERNOR
The 1800s – The Governor in a steam engine carries news of change through the system and adapts to that change (feedback). Some people think that the adaptability and flexibility of the governor follows the same principle of adaptability and flexibility that we see in the natural world.
Samuel Butler – The Vapour Engine
Edward Craik – A (Proto) Cybernetic Explanation
Gregory Bateson – From Schizmogenesis to Feedback
M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)
W. Grey Walter – The Body in Pieces
Jacques Lacan – The Tortoise and Homeostasis
Gregory Bateson – Bateson’s Negentropic Discourse Matrix
SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot)
Warren S. McCulloch and Jacques Lacan – Play Like an Idiot
Jacques Lacan – Lacan Builds a Circuit: Cybernetics and the Unconscious
THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)
Alfred Korzybski and Gregory Bateson – Why “The Map is NOT the Territory”
THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER (The E-Meter)
Alfred Korzybski and William Burroughs – Time-Binding and Time-Scrambling
THE HOMEOSTAT
W. Ross Ashby and Gregory Bateson – Steps Towards a (Media) Ecology
THE PORTAPAK: SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)
Radical Software, Guerrilla Television and Gregory Bateson – The Fabulous Loop de Loop
CONCLUSION
THE ANNOTATION
(An ongoing annotated bibliography)
The Annotation runs as a parallel text alongside The Fabulous Loop de Loop.