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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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Introduction and Chapter Outline
THE GOVERNOR
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 Annotations runs as a parallel text alongside The Fabulous Loop de Loop.