Heather A Love

Cybernetic Aesthetics

Modernist Networks of Information and Data

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Produktbeschreibung

"In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781009387484
• ISBN-10: 1009387480
• Artikelnr.: 68140092

Autorenporträt

Heather A. Love is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. Her work on modernist literature and on the cultural and intellectual history of cybernetics has appeared in Modernism/ modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, Feminist Modernist Studies, and New Literary History as well as the more tech-focused IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cybernetic Thinking and Modernist Literature; 1. Feedback
Loops and Learning from the Past: Ezra Pound's Poetics of Transmission; 2.
The Cybernetic Information Dialectic: Patterns, Randomness and Newsreel in
John Dos Passos's USA; 3. Black Box Subjectivity: Associative Language,
Affect, and Radio Blindness in Virginia Woolf's The Waves; 4. Cultural
Composition, Insistent Spirals, and Definition by Contrast: Gertrude Stein
as Second-Order Cybernetic Anthropologist; Coda: Retrospective and
Prospective Readings of Cybernetic Aesthetics.