Posts under ‘Cybernetics’

 
In the temporary absence of original thought (if, indeed, there is such a thing), a couple of tidbits from my own intellectual family tree:
[C]ertain organisms, such as man, tend for a time to maintain and often even to increase the level of their organization, as a local enclave in the general stream of increasing entropy, […]

The explanatory world of substance can invoke no differences and no ideas but only forces and impacts. And, per contra, the world of form and communication invokes no things, forces, or impacts but only differences and ideas. (A difference which makes a difference is an idea. It is a “bit,” a unit of […]

It was bound to happen. Somebody, somewhere, was going to accuse me of being a technological determinist. Maybe it’s because of the way I say–over and over again–how this or that technology “influences” this or “shapes” that. Maybe it’s because of my passionate defense of the aesthetic styles of others who have–rightly […]