Cybernetics Snacks: Kate Hayles

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Snack Pack#

McCullock WS and Pitts W (1943) A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bulletin of Mathematical Bipphysics 5: 115-133. Link to paper.
Hayles K (1999) How we became posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 3: Contesting for the body of information: the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics. Link to book.
Hoggett R. Cybernetic zoo: A history of cybernetic animals and early robots. Link to website.
Bateson MC (2014) Living with cybernetics. Presented at the ASC dinner meeting, Washington DC. Link to video.

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