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Cybernetics Books
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 745 ratings — published 1948
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 895 ratings — published 1949
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 132 ratings — published 2010
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 891 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 127 ratings — published 1956
Brain of the Firm (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.30 — 121 ratings — published 1972
Designing Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 173 ratings — published 1974
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,467 ratings — published 1972
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
by (shelved 16 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 802 ratings — published
Design for a Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 48 ratings — published 1952
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 310 ratings — published 2011
The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 14 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 275 ratings — published 2001
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,704 ratings — published 1992
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)
by (shelved 13 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 330 ratings — published 1973
Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2002
The Computer and the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 815 ratings — published 1958
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.39 — 680 ratings — published 1949
The Heart of Enterprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 60 ratings — published 1979
God & Golem, Inc. (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.58 — 265 ratings — published 1964
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 27,771 ratings — published 1960
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 452 ratings — published 2016
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,863 ratings — published 1990
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 24 ratings — published 2002
Diagnosing the System for Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 51 ratings — published 1985
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 113 ratings — published 2004
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 132 ratings — published 1991
Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2016
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,871 ratings — published 1979
Platform for Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 47 ratings — published 1975
Laws of Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 144 ratings — published 1969
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 666 ratings — published 2006
Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,154 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,264 ratings — published 1991
Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 45 ratings — published 2001
Cybernetics Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1991
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 297 ratings — published
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,119 ratings — published 2008
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 795 ratings — published 1961
Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics (Volume 9, No.2, 2001) - Francisco J. Varela 1946-2001
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Heinz Von Foerster 1911-2002 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 5.00 — 7 ratings — published 2004
Decision and Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 46 ratings — published 1966
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,305 ratings — published 1984
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 356,641 ratings — published 1984
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,903 ratings — published 2011
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Software Studies)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 170 ratings — published 2015
The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 33 ratings — published 2015
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 235 ratings — published 1995
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by (shelved 5 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 33 ratings — published 2002
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 23,527 ratings — published 2023
Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1: Epistemological Reconstruction (Philosophy, Art and Technology)
by (shelved 4 times as cybernetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published
“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”
― Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
― Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
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