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'''THE GOVERNOR'''
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'''M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)'''
==M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)==


[[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 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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