2017
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2017v42n3a3214
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Bats in the Belfry: On the Relationship of Cybernetics and German Media Theory

Abstract: Background  When German media theory (GMT) took shape in the early 1980s it was influenced by cybernetic concepts; however, it eventually discovered the history of cybernetics as an object of research.Analysis  The article follows the assumption that GMT’s double reference to cybernetics must be characterized as the result of both a shared epistemology and a specific discursive constellation. After contrasting McCulloch’s concept of a synthetic physiological a priori and Kittler’s concept of a technological a … Show more

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