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The Fabulous Loop de Loop

The cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines

A project by Steve Rushton

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Chapter Outline

Introduction: The Foundations of Cybernetic Discourse

THE GOVERNOR

Samuel Butler – The Vapour Engine

Samuel Butler – Vibrations

Edward Craik – A (Proto) Cybernetic Explanation

Gregory Bateson – From Schizmogenesis to Feedback

Gregory Bateson, Warren S. McCulloch & Lawrence Kubie – Three Cyberneticians’ Discourse on Freud’s Dynamic Psychology

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 Annotations runs as a parallel text alongside The Fabulous Loop de Loop.