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cybernetics
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cybernetics /cy·ber·net·ics/ (si″ber-net´iks) the science of the processes of communication and control in the animal and in the machine.
cy·ber·net·ics (sbr-ntks)
n.
The theoretical study of communication and control processes in biological, mechanical, and electronic systems, especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems.
cybernetics
[sī′bərnet′iks]
the science of control and communication in living and nonliving systems, as in comparative study of electronic computers and the living brain.
cybernetics
the science of communication and control in the animal and in the machine.


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Capital capitalizes, assimilates, makes its own substance, revitalizing its being, a vast metabolism absorbing even the most ancient exchanges, running away, as the cyberneticians put it, performing, as it does, its own anthropomorphosis, its triumph the triumph of mediation--and, let's not forget, it organizes, capital organizes, capital is "an organizing," organizing social forms.
Why not say what happens? by Joseph, Lawrence / Commonweal
The Fun Palace was designed together with two other legendary figures: the cybernetician Gordon Pask and the theatrical impresario Joan Littlewood, together they evolved an all-purpose activity space with infinitely movable, removable and interchangeable elements: turntable escalators, foldaway roofs and the like.
The man who changed England by Cook, Peter / The Architectural Review
With the guidance of Gordon Pask, the British cybernetician and cognitive scientist, the idea was developed that the combination of human being and machine-environment forms a reciprocal learning system, each building his/her/its knowledge from what he/she/it learns about the other.
Visible and invisible complexities by Abel, Chris / The Architectural Review
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