Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City
Киборгизация города: сложность и чудовищность современного города
2005-03-01
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complex systemscontemporary citycyberneticscyborg urbanizationsocial and material practice
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cyborg' can be traced to the eighteenth-century word 'organism' (derived from the French organisme) and the more recent term 'cybernetics' introduced by the mathematician Norbert Wiener in the 1940s to describe the study of complex systems of control and communications in animals and machines.The literature on the cyborg ranges from conceptions of the cyborg as an ontological or epistemological strategy to explorations of specific manifestations of the cyborg in social and material practice.See, for example, Haraway (1984; 1991a; 1991b; 1992),
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Cyborg scholarship includes both ontological and epistemological approaches and analyses of cyborg manifestations in social and material practices.
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The abstract situates contemporary urbanization within broader debates about complexity and monstrosity through the cyborg framework.
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The cyborg concept links the eighteenth-century notion of “organism” with Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics, the study of control and communication in complex systems.
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The physical infrastructure of the contemporary city considered through the cyborg metaphor
Research Subject
its complexity and monstrosity
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