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Systems Systems
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Self-Regulation Self-Regulation
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Self-Reference Self-Reference
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Self-Making Self-Making
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Media: Gramophone, Film, Typewriter Media: Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
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Systems Differentiations Systems Differentiations
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The Reception of the Trace The Reception of the Trace
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Semiolepsis Semiolepsis
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Telepathy Telepathy
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The Narrative Approach The Narrative Approach
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The Critical Approach The Critical Approach
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Mind of My Mind Mind of My Mind
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The Systems Theory Approach The Systems Theory Approach
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1 Systems, Media, Narrative: From the Trace to the Telepathic Imaginary
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Published:September 2014
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The discourse of cybernetic systems emerges around a functional similarity in the self-regulation of mechanical and organic systems. One result of this parallel development is a tendency for informatics and cybernetics to get tangled up, their conceptual differences disregarded. This chapter disconnects that entanglement and traces their separation to the early 1970s, when second-order cybernetics and autopoietic systems theory merged to hypothesize a noninformatic conception of cognition. The systems theory that assembles this conceptual progression came to be known as second-order systems theory or Neocybernetics. The chapter cites Niklas Luhmann as a prominent thinker in self-referential systems theory, whose work was influenced by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s concept of autopoiesis and Heinz von Foerster’s work in second-order cybernetics.
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