Utopia's ghost: architecture and postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin (university of Minesota Press, 2010)

Tomas Maldonado   Design, Nature and Revolution: Toward a critical ecology

p53 "Though Maldonado noted the etymological sense of ecology, he did not note the connection to economy, preferring instead to take up the systems approach of Ludwig von Bertalanffy via an analytics of the 'social system' constructed around an opposition between open and closed systems, derived from the post-Weberian school of American sociology formed in the 1950s around Talcott Parsons. This framework compels Maldonado to read the failed rebellion of the late 1960s through the notion of a system's tendency toward 'dynamic equilibrium' that absorbs and neutralizes conflict."



McLuhan, "The Invisible Environment: the future of an erosion," Perspecta 11 (1967)
p60-61
"Using a combination of cybernetics, systems theory, and communication theory, he postulates the human subject as an opaque black box communicating with and constructed by a multimedia environment through constant feedback. In perspecta McLuhan observes the necessity of what he calls 'pattern recognition' as a new form of environmental awareness. Among its instruments would be language, held together by invisible relational patterns (what McLuhan calls in his title the 'invisible environment') that we can recognize as asking to Eisenman's syntax but made available to human beings only through interaction with machines.... In other words, for McLuhan pattern recognition is a process comparable to that of acquiring a new mother tongue, a linguistic home that gives shelter to the human subject awash in a delirious, multimedia environment, by training him or her to 'see' the hidden, regulating patterns— the grammar, but also the software, if you like— that was running the new machines that were running the new environments, in a recurrent feedback loop."


Peter Eisenman



pay attention to the chapter about mirrors (instead of glass for modernism) used in architecture
mirrors   circular and tautological seriality created by,  as feedback loop; concealing the outside,
             Harvey's hypothesis of underpinnings of postmodernity as "economics with mirrors",
              rereflection technique
(black cannon incident   loop    Yao's works on feedback loops of glass)