how we became post human

Gregory Bateson

p305 For an analysis of the strategies used to proclaim cybernetics a universal science, see Geof Bowker, " How to Be Universal: Some Cybernetic strategies, 1943-1970," social studies of science 23 (1993): 107-27

James R. Beniger The control revolution: technological and economic origins of the information society (harvard university press 1986)

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An excellent survey of autopoietic theory,from Maturana and Varela to its proponents in such diverse fields as Luhmann's social systems theory and family therapy, can be found in John Mingers, Self-producing systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis (New York: Plenum Press, 1995). A useful biography and survey can also be found at Randall Whitaker's Web site.

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The foremost theorist extending autopoietic theory into social systems is of course Niklas Luhmann.
The Differentiation of society 1982
social systems 1995

Hubert Dreyfus: What Computers Cant' Do: The Limits of artificial intelligence 1979

Mark Johnson: The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination and reason


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John R. Searl Minds, Brains, and Science (harvard university press, 1986)