Cybernetic aesthetics : modernist networks of information and data /

Cybernetic aesthetics : modernist networks of information and data / Heather A. Love.

"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 commun...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Love, Heather Allison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Cybernetics in literature.
Communication in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Communication in literature
Cybernetics in literature
Literature > Aesthetics
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature
  • Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission
  • The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
  • Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves
  • Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist
  • Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.

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