How Long to Read Neocybernetics and Narrative

How Long Does it Take to Read Neocybernetics and Narrative?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Neocybernetics and Narrative by Bruce Clarke

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke’s project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory’s potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory. A pioneer of systems narratology, Clarke offers readers a synthesis of the neocybernetic theories of cognition formulated by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, incubated by cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster, and cultivated in Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. From this foundation, he interrogates media theory and narrative theory through a critique of information theory in favor of autopoietic conceptions of cognition. Clarke’s purview includes examinations of novels (Mrs. Dalloway and Mind of My Mind), movies (Avatar, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and even Aramis, Bruno Latour’s idiosyncratic meditation on a failed plan for an automated subway. Clarke declares the era of the cyborg to have ended, laid to rest as the ontology of technical objects is brought into differential coordination with operations of living, psychic, and social systems. The second-order discourse of cognition destabilizes the usual sense of cognition as conscious awareness, revealing the possibility of nonconscious and nonhuman forms of sentience.

How long is Neocybernetics and Narrative?

Neocybernetics and Narrative by Bruce Clarke is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Neocybernetics and Narrative Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Neocybernetics and Narrative aloud.

What Reading Level is Neocybernetics and Narrative?

Neocybernetics and Narrative is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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