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[[Introduction: The Foundations of Cybernetic Discourse]]
[[Introduction: The Foundations of Cybernetic Discourse]]


==THE GOVERNOR==
'''THE GOVERNOR'''


[[Samuel Butler – The Vapour Engine]]                                                           
[[Samuel Butler – The Vapour Engine]]                                                           
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==M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)==
'''M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)'''


[[W. Grey Walter – The Body in Pieces]]
[[W. Grey Walter – The Body in Pieces]]
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==SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot)==
'''SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot)'''


[[Warren S. McCulloch and Jacques Lacan – Play Like an Idiot]]
[[Warren S. McCulloch and Jacques Lacan – Play Like an Idiot]]
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==THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)==
'''THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)'''


[[Alfred Korzybski and Gregory Bateson – Why “The Map is NOT the Territory”]]
[[Alfred Korzybski and Gregory Bateson – Why “The Map is NOT the Territory”]]




==THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER (The E-Meter)==
'''THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER (The E-Meter)'''


[[Alfred Korzybski and William Burroughs – Time-Binding and Time-Scrambling]]
[[Alfred Korzybski and William Burroughs – Time-Binding and Time-Scrambling]]




==THE HOMEOSTAT==
'''THE HOMEOSTAT'''


[[W. Ross Ashby and Gregory Bateson – Steps Towards a (Media) Ecology]]
[[W. Ross Ashby and Gregory Bateson – Steps Towards a (Media) Ecology]]




==THE PORTAPAK: SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)==
'''THE PORTAPAK: SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)'''


[[Radical Software, Guerrilla Television and Gregory Bateson – The Fabulous Loop de Loop]]
[[Radical Software, Guerrilla Television and Gregory Bateson – The Fabulous Loop de Loop]]




==CONCLUSION==
'''CONCLUSION'''




==THE ANNOTATION==
'''THE ANNOTATION'''


(An ongoing annotated bibliography)
(An ongoing annotated bibliography)
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==THE LICENCE==
'''THE LICENCE'''




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Revision as of 13:52, 19 July 2020

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


THE LICENCE



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