Cybernetic Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781009387484 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Ontario) Love Heather A. (University of Waterloo

Opis

This book shows that modernist literature creatively negotiated the same issues of data processing that cybernetics technologies would later tackle.

Spis treści

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.