The Norbert Wiener's cybernetic raving

Authors

  • Stephen Pfohl Boston College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2001.15.3128

Keywords:

Cybernetics, communication theory, sociology of communication

Abstract

This text argues that the world condition is increasingly more and more mediated by a certain delirious cyber-hyphenization of reality which seems to have began from Norbert Wiener ́s thoughts onwards.

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Author Biography

Stephen Pfohl, Boston College

Prof. of Sociology in Boston College

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Published

2008-04-10

How to Cite

Pfohl, S. (2008). The Norbert Wiener’s cybernetic raving. Revista FAMECOS, 8(15), 105–121. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2001.15.3128

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Vol. 8 No. 15 (2001)

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Theories

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