Dissertations / Theses: 'Cybernetics'

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Omari, Bashiru. "Management cybernetics." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12694.

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Management cybernetics is the field of cybernetics concerned with management and organizations. The notion of cybernetics and management was first introduced by Stafford Beer in the late 1950s. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12694

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Brown, Alistair. "Demonic fictions : cybernetics and postmodernism." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2465/.

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Whilst demons are no longer viewed as literal beings, as a metaphor the demon continues to trail ideas about doubt and truth, simulation and reality, into post- Enlightenment culture. This metaphor has been revitalised in a contemporary period that has seen the dominance of the cybernetic paradigm. Cybernetics has produced technologies of simulation, whilst the posthuman (a hybrid construction of the self emerging from cultural theory and technology) perceives the world as part of a circuit of other informational systems. In this thesis, illustrative films and literary fictions posit a connection between cybernetic epistemologies and metaphors of demonic possession, and contextualise these against postmodern thought and its narrative modes. Demons mark a return to pre-Enlightenment models of knowledge, so that demonic (dis)simulation can be seen to describe our encounters with artificial others and virtual worlds that reflect an uncertainly constituted and unstable self. By juxtaposing Renaissance notions of the demon with Donna Haraway's posthuman "cyborg," psychoanalytic demons with the robots of the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956), and Descartes' "deceiving demon" with Alan Turing's artificial intelligence test, I propose that the demon proves a fluid, multivalent trope that crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries. The demon raises epistemological questions about the relationship between reality, human psychology, and the representation of both in other modes, particularly narrative fictions. When this framework is applied to seminal science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [both 1968]), conventional readings of cyborgs as monstrous Others have to be revised. These fictions are engaged with cybernetic technologies with an epistemological rather than ontological concern, and consequently lend themselves to the kind of sceptical doubt about reality that characterises postmodern thought. Contrary to Descartes, who sees foundational truth through the deceptions of his "deceiving demon," later films like Blade Runner (1982) and The Matrix (1999) use the motif of cybernetic technologies to highlight the inescapability of the postmodern condition of the hyperreal. Finally, however, literary fictions like Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (1988) and A.S. Byatťs A Whistling Woman (2002) and Possession (1990) draw attention to their narrative mechanisms through metafiction, and set the creation of literary meaning against computer-generated texts. Consequently, they defy both the determinism of cybernetic sciences, and the postmodern pretence that the "real" is irrecoverably evasive.

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Martin, Fred. "Children, cybernetics, and programmable turtles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17229.

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Dewhurst, David William. "Conceptual and cognitive problems in cybernetics." Thesis, Brunel University, 1990. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5251.

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Controversies have existed for some time about cybernetics as a subject and difficulties have existed for students in obtaining an overview despite the fact that at some level several cybernetics concepts can be grasped by twelve year olds. An attempt is made to unpack the notion of a subject entity and to indicate how far elements in cybernetics conform to such a concept within a generally acceptable philosophy of science. Ambiguities and controversies among key themes of cybernetics are examined and resolutions offered. How far the nature of cybernetics is likely to create problems of understanding is discussed, along with approaches towards the empirical examination of how cybernetic ideas are understood. An approach to better understanding is formulated and used in an investigation of how and how effectively the concept of feedback is grasped by various groups. Suggestions are offered from the foregoing analysis as to the balance of problems within cybernetics and effective strategies for the future.

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Andrew, Culp. "Deleuze Beyond Deleuze: Thought Outside Cybernetics." Universität Leipzig, 2020. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71595.

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Soliar, Bohdan. "To the issue of economic cybernetics." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13166.

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Fantini, van Ditmar Delfina. "IdIOT : second-order cybernetics in the 'smart' home." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2016. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2697/.

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During thesis brings second-order cybernetics into design research, in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and ‘smart’ homes. My main proposition is to question and critically analyse the embedded epistemology in IoT technology in relation to human centred activities. I examine how human lives are represented within the quantified approaches inherent in current notions of ‘smart’ technology, derived from Artificial Intelligence (AI), and characterise this as the Algorithmic Paradigm. I explore questions of how complex, lived, human experience is oversimplified in the IoT. By adopting an epistemology derived from second-order cybernetics — acknowledging the importance of the observer — combined with my ‘IdIoT Proposition’, a way of ‘slowing down’ research on a fast-paced topic, I explore designing reflectively. The IdIoT is a methodological framework characterised by the process of slowing down and asking ‘What are we busy doing?’ in order to become aware of algorithmic oversimplifications. This methodological approach provides self- awareness and self-reflection on ‘the way of knowing the world’ to the researcher and to the participants, in the context of the Algorithmic Paradigm applied in IoT. Through a series of practice-based projects, I use the figure of the ‘SMART’ fridge to examine the implications of the Algorithmic Paradigm in the ‘smart’ home. The consideration that ‘smartness’ is relational is investigated in Becoming Your ‘SMART’ Fridge, in which I position myself as the algorithm behind a ‘smart’ fridge, using quantitative and qualitative data to make sense and ‘nonsense’ outcomes, and exploring householders’ interpretations. In the ‘SMART’ Fridge Session, I developed scripted dialogues characterised by active, reflective users, and assigned roles in which the ‘smartness’ of the algorithms is explored via professional performances and fictitious roles taken on by members of the public. The findings reveal the value of second-order cybernetics, acknowledging an unpredictable observer and embracing ‘smart’ as relational in interaction with IoT technology. They suggest that a shift in perspective is required to create more meaningful interactions with devices in the ‘smart’ home, questioning the current technological path, challenging the dominant epistemology and proposing alternatives. My methodological approach demonstrates how design research and 1 second-order considerations can work together, asking novel questions to inform disciplines with an interest in the IoT, both from a design perspective and in terms of broader implications for society. The work has value for design, HCI, Critical Algorithm Studies, and for technical developers involved in the creation of IoT systems.

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Schreiber, Korbinian [Verfasser], and Johannes [Akademischer Betreuer] Schemmel. "Accelerated neuromorphic cybernetics / Korbinian Schreiber ; Betreuer: Johannes Schemmel." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225749158/34.

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Stokes, P. A. "Finalization, cybernetics and the possibility of a social science." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639114.

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The discipline of sociology was constructed in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries on conceptual foundations inspired by mechanics and thermodynamics, realms of organized simplicity and disorganized complexity respectively. The social world, on the other hand, is a realm of organized complexity. Sociology has, therefore, been erected on sets of inappropriate fundamental ideas and is consequently a discipline in crisis. It is a discipline that cannot quite get to grips with its subject matter. The work argues that the appropriate conceptual foundation for the social sciences is the realm of communication and control, ideas that were given a rigorous formulation in cybernetics, information theory and systems thinking since the 1940s. Many people have seen the prima facie appropriateness of these ideas for the study of human society and numerous attempts have been made to apply them. Almost all of these efforts have been failures, at least from a sociological point of view. The thesis suggests that the problem with all such previous attempts is that they considered of too direct an application of cybernetics to sociology, entailing a metaphoric reduction that threatened the intellectual integrity of the discipline. Work in the history of science suggests where deep theoretical, foundational work may well be achieved for a realm in the abstruse so to speak, it is when attempts are made to apply these results to more phenomenal domains to which in principle they are deemed appropriate and relevant and problems of an apparent 'lack of fit' arise. It has been found that a group of intermediating concepts are necessary to draw the two domains together in a workable fit. This has been called a process of 'finalization of science'. The burden of this dissertation therefore has been to construct a finalization process that would effect the fruitful union of cybernetics and sociology. To this end it is observed that social organizing is the outcome when the concerted control attempts when two or more people become intertwined through their emergent interdependence. Thus the concept of social organization is proffered as the generic candidate of a finalized version of cybernetic control that is amenable for sociological usurpation. Specifically, it is proposed that Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) is the appropriate finalized form of this concept.

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Hight, Charles Christopher Clinton. "Measuring vortices : architectural principles in the age of cybernetics." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407722.

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Al-Shawi, S. N. A. "Management cybernetics : computer simulation models of operational management organizations." Thesis, Brunel University, 1986. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5015.

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Cybernetics is the science of effective organization, i.e. the science that describes the general principles of growth, learning and adaptation in complex, dynamical systems. Stafford Beer regards his viable system model as a design for effective formal organization. He also declares that since his model is explicitly based upon the principles of cybernetics, it facilitates consideration of what is and is not possible within formal organizations and provides guidance in creating efficient structures. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate and test Stafford Beer's ideas on the viable system model via the simulation of certain business activities. A methodology for getting access to the cybernetic body of knowledge is given as well as examples of cybernetic laws relevant to managerial and business practice. An important part of the work is devoted to the explanation and discussion of Stafford Beer's viable system model, and the importance it represents as a cybernetic method for the design of organizational structures. Simulation models incorporating the major activities of a business firm are represented and used as case studies to investigate how basic industrial organizations based on Beer's viable system model work under operational conditions.

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Gentry, Lucas. "Environmental Cybernetics: Technology and the Perception of Remediated Space." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3844.

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Moby Dick, House of Leaves, and Ex Machina portray characters that rely on a form of technology to navigate their respective environments. As such, their settings are remediated spaces – spaces understood through their relationship with technology. The inhabitants of remediated spaces inherently resemble the cyborg as their perspectives fuse with machines in their understanding of space. Captain Ahab from Moby Dick must rely on his ivory leg and ship for mobility, often merging himself with the machine of the vessel. House of Leaves provides a space and family that exist exclusively within the confines of found footage, fusing technology and humanity through layers of remediation. Ex Machina illustrates a gynoid escaping an imprisoning facility, a machine called Ava that physically resembles a human. Using theorists such as Donna Haraway and Henri Lefebvre, this thesis explores connections between technology and space.

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Remme, Espen W. "A Model-based Approach for Clinical Evaluation of Left Ventricular Deformation." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-249.

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Assessment of left ventricular (LV) deformation is essential for clinical evaluation of LV function and cardiac images are frequently used to evaluate the LV motion and function. By combining the images with mathematical models more information may be extracted from the images. The work presented in this thesis has focused on using the finite element (FE) method to describe the LV and its deformation and combining this method with images of the heart to extract more information about the deformation.

We developed a method that estimated the LV deformation by manually tracking distinct anatomical landmarks (fiducial markers) through the cardiac cycle in 3 dimensional (3D) images of the heart. The motion of the nodal parameters of an FE mesh shaped to the geometry of the LV was fitted to the motion of the fiducial markers and thus provided a means to describe the motion. The sparsity of the fiducial markers made the fitting problem under-constrained so a parameter distribution model (PDM) of likely motions were constructed from a historical database of cases where FE meshes had been fitted to the motion of magnetic resonance (MR) tagged data. The estimated deformation from the fiducial marker fitting was filtered through the PDM and the resulting deformation corresponded well when compared to the deformation obtained from MR tagging in 13 normal subjects.

A method that decomposed the LV deformation into different deformation modes such as longitudinal shortening, wall thickening, and twisting was developed. The nodes of a subject’s LV FE mesh were displaced according to each deformation mode and the relative contribution of each mode to the total deformation measured by MR tagging was quantified by calculating a coefficient for each mode. A study that compared 13 young normal subjects with 13 older diabetes patients showed that the patients had a significantly lower degree of longitudinal shortening and wall thickening but a higher degree of longitudinal twist.

The LV deformation is influenced by cardiac disease via the material properties of the myocardium. We investigated the effects of the material parameter values on the LV deformation in a simulation study using an FE model of the LV. A description of the myocardial microstructure and a passive and active constitutive law was included in the model. The cardiac cycle was simulated from the beginning of diastasis through to the end of ejection by applying appropriate boundary conditions. The different deformation modes between end diastole and end systole were extracted and quantified for different sets of material parameters. We found that stiffer material properties particularly in the myocardial sheet direction impaired longitudinal shortening and wall thickening.

A sensitivity analysis was carried out to look at the various material parameters’ influence on LV wall strains during passive inflation. The analysis showed a high degree of coupling of the parameters in the constitutive law, which indicated an overparameterization of the law. A parameter estimation study revealed the same problem. Most of the parameters were set to constant values and only one parameter in each of the three microstructural directions were estimated during the passive inflation phase using synthetic strain data as measurements. This still gave good estimates of the stress-strain relationships in the fiber and sheet directions.

Papers I and II reprinted with kind permission of Elsevier, ScienceDirect

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Low, William. "Extraction of rules from neural networks using genetic algorithms." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362292.

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Murray, Margaret Joy. "A cybernetic view of teacher learning." Access electronically, 2003. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20041101.150341/index.html.

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Maffei, Maud [Verfasser]. "Robert Smithson and Cybernetics: Language, Technology and Abstraction / Maud Maffei." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1152264281/34.

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Panagiotakopoulos, Panagiotis D. "A systems and cybernetics approach to corporate sustainability in construction." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1126.

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Doove, Edith M. "Laughter, inframince and cybernetics : exploring the curatorial as creative act." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10382.

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This thesis identifies and responds to a contemporary impasse in the curatorial, which is thought of as the realm that encompasses curating as a complex action and interaction; a verb that includes the conceiving, organising and executing of exhibitions as well as critical thinking around curation as a discipline. The current impasse in curation the thesis responds to is caused, on the one hand, through its rapid expansion since the late 1980s and, on the other, through its mainstream and populist appropriation, which confuses understandings of it. The thesis proposes a strategy for the recovery for curating’s most basic work of ‘taking care’ and situates the curatorial as a creative act. It adopts Duchamp’s inframince as an artistic concept, and uses it as a lens to reveal the role of the speculative, poetic and absurd, the personal and subjective and the instant of emergence of creativity in curatorial practice. This facilitates an essentially diffractive methodology as well as a textual method of ‘an imaginative leap’ through friction, rhythm and repetition, building on Whitehead and Barad, (among others) to connect ideas of non-linearity and relay in (art) history. Opening up this rich meshwork thus allows for a reconnection of the curatorial to its original provenance and connoisseurship. The poetic investigation of an invisible force, the inframince, which is seen as instrumental to the curatorial and meaning making in general, is underpinned by the investigation of two other major, intertwining narratives – laughter and cybernetics. This liberates the inframince’s versatility and makes it potentially an operative tool, following Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming minor and O’Sullivan’s interpretation, within a wider trans-disciplinary framework of art-science collaborations. Through this discussion, the thesis then reaffirms the curatorial (as it is intended here) as a practice that shapes the collaboration between specific human and nonhuman elements: the curator, and the artist (and/or scientist) and texts, artefacts, spaces and time.

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Sokolova, I. V. "English for Specific Purposes: English for Economic Cybernetics Course Design." Thesis, Publishing House Education and Science s.r.o.(Praha), 2005. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/62086.

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Матеріал містить вимоги щодо курсу з англійської мови для студентів Екномічної кібернетики"б завдання курсу та систему вправ. Крім того, в статті надаються результати аналізу потреб студентів.
The article presents the requirements of English coures for Economic Cybernetics, the tasks of the course and the system of assignments. It also contains the results of students' needs analysis.

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Swann, Thomas Robert. "Anarchist cybernetics : control and communication in radical left social movements." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37597.

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This thesis develops the concept of anarchist cybernetics in an attempt to elaborate an understanding of the participatory and democratic forms of organisation that have characterised radical left-wing social movements in recent years. Bringing together Stafford Beer’s organisational cybernetics and the organisational approaches of both classical and contemporary anarchism, an argument is made for the value of an anarchist cybernetic perspective that goes beyond the managerialism cybernetics has long been associated with. Drawing on theoretical reflection and an empirical strategy of participatory political philosophy, the thesis examines contemporary social movement organisational practices through two lenses: control and communication. Articulating control as self-organisation, in line with cybernetic thought, an argument is made for finding a balance between, on the one hand, strategic identity and cohesion and, on the other, tactical autonomy. While anarchist and radical left activism often privileges individual autonomy, it is suggested here that too much autonomy or tactical flexibility can be as damaging to a social movement organisation as over-centralisation. Turning to communication, the thesis looks at social media, the focus of another kind of hype in recent activism, and identifies both the potentials and the problems of using social media platforms in anarchist and radical left organisation. Importantly, the thesis takes social media as information management systems and speculates on several core aspects of alternative social media that might be more suited to the kind of activism anarchist cybernetics helps elucidate. By introducing and expanding on the idea of anarchist cybernetics, the thesis provides an account of what anarchist organisations have been, what they are and what they could be.

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Karatzas, L. S. "On the development of an optical force-feedback microphone." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259893.

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Reyes, Alfonso. "A theoretical framework for the design of a social accounting system." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306942.

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Brittz, Simon Dean. "The facilitating role of metaphors in psychotherapy with adolescents : a cybernetic perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63071.

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The capacity of psychotherapeutic metaphors to play a facilitating role in the process of psychotherapy with adolescents is the research question under investigation in this study. To determine whether this process-facilitating capacity exists, the researcher will describe various case studies to illustrate this occurrence. To this end and because of the lack of research in this area, the aim of this study is to determine the facilitating role of metaphor in psychotherapy with adolescents. To achieve this, the basic concepts of cybernetic epistemology are explored, as well as the psychotherapeutic use of metaphors. These theoretical constructs are then applied to the therapeutic case studies where the facilitating role of metaphors are described, thus satisfYing the initial aim of this study. It is important to remember that the aim of this study is not to provide guidelines for therapeutic interventions, nor is it to propose a new psychotherapeutic technique. Rather, the aim of this study is to describe the facilitating role played by metaphors in psychotherapy.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Centre for Scientific Development
Psychology
MA
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Paradissopoulos, Iordanis K. "Railway management : an evaluation of management cybernetics in a public enterprise." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1989. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4164.

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Two are the objectives of this thesis: To identify structural and cultural causes of ineffectiveness in a state-owned railway enterprise in the light of the management cybernetics area of knowledge. To assess the capacity of this area of knowledge, especially in its abstract and coded form (Beer's Model of the Viable System), to provide adequate explanations of organizational performance and organizational failure. The objectives are sought in the analysis of an actual enterprise, the Greek Railways Organization (OSE). An 'ethnographic type' pilot study is initially undertaken, to highlight organizational problems under a management cybernetics perspective. The study, though demonstrating structural problems associated with a certain organizational culture, is assumed in itself inadequate, as it reflects a subjective interpretation of reality. A 'survey within the case study' is therefore undertaken aiming at deriving the real dimensions of organizational problems from an analysis of managerial responses. Responses are designed to provide a picture of both the actual way in which the enterprise organizes in the pursuit of its tasks, and the organizational culture. The first subtheme (organizational structure) is examined in terms of the cybernetic model of the viable organization. The findings, in general, validate the assumptions of the ethnographic study. Numerous structural problems are identified. The second subtheme (culture) is examined in terms of managerial cohesiveness, defined as the agreement between managers on key issues of the identity of the enterprise. The overall conclusion is that though managers are, in general, in agreement, the content of this agreement tends rather to reflect a shared pessimistic view of the future than cohesiveness facilitating viability and development. The conclusion, as regards the enterprise, is, that though many problems are reflected in the organizational structure, proper modifications of this structure may not suffice to guarantee improved performance, unless considerable attention is paid in the building of a relevant organizational culture, quite difficult under the specific circumstances. The conclusion, as regards the adopted methodology, is that though Beer's model of the viable system assists in a diagnosis of many organizational deficiencies, it may not suffice to promote organizational change, especially when narrowly perceived, i. e., when results to a concentration on structural arrangements in the expense of the building of a corporate culture. Certain methodologies should develop, which, while making use of the advantages of the model, will not underestimate other significant aspects of organizational reality.

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Baker, Kevin T. "Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, and Philosophy in the German Democratic Republic." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/47.

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Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia.

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Craig, Richard. "Application of cybernetics to viable systems architecture for proactive cyber defence." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761214.

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Kandjani, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh. "Engineering Self-designing Enterprises as Complex Systems Using Enterprise Architecture Cybernetics." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367332.

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Various disciplines have contributed to Complexity Science by experiencing the problem of how to design, build and control more and more complex systems (i.e., to ‘beat the complexity barrier’) and tried to suggest some solutions. However, apart from the description of this problem, very few concrete proposals exist to solve it. The observation of this Conceptual Analytical dissertation is that while improved design methodologies, modelling languages and analysis tools can certainly lessen the designer’s problem, they only extend the complexity barrier that a designer (or group of designers) can deal with, but they do not remove that barrier. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that perhaps the system (or system of systems) and the designer (group of designers) should not be separated and systems should design themselves, out of component systems that have the same self-designing property. Therefore the informal research questions are: 1. Is it possible to remove this problem from the design of complex systems? 2. If yes how (or to what extent)? Many disciplines attempted to attack the question of complexity management, and as will be seen, an interdisciplinary approach seems necessary to be able to give useful answers. Enterprise Architecture as a discipline, which evolved in the past 20 to 30 years (initially called 'enterprise integration'), has defined as its mission to bring together all that knowledge which is necessary to maintain enterprises through life (ISO 15704, 2000). Therefore, this thesis will attempt to look at the problem through the eyes of an interdisciplinary EA researcher.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Information and Communication Technology
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Findlay, A. "A cybernetic approach to the robot-design process." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376775.

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Fyfe, Colin. "Negative feedback as an organising principle for artificial neural networks." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21390.

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We investigate the properties of an unsupervised neural network which uses simple Hebbian learning and negative feedback of activation in order to self-organise. The negative feedback circumvents the well-known difficulty of positive feedback in Hebbian learning systems which causes the networks' weights to increase without bound. We show, both analytically and experimentally, that not only do the weights of networks with this architecture converge, they do so to values which give the networks important information processing properties: linear versions of the model are shown to perform a Principal Component Analysis of the input data while a non-linear version is shown to be capable of Exploratory Projection Pursuit. While there is no claim that the networks described herein represent the complexity found in biological networks, we believe that the networks investigated are not incompatible with known neurobiology. However, the main thrust of the thesis is a mathematical analysis of the emergent properties of the network; such analysis is backed by empirical evidence at all times.

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Bahjat-Abbas, Niran. "Informatic narratives in postmodern theory and literature." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340470.

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Wu, Ping. "Kohonen self-organising neural networks in speech signal processing." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386985.

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High, Chris. "Opening spaces for learning : a systems approach to sustainable development." Thesis, Open University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251404.

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Gillan, Daniel J. "An analysis of specific contracting issues regarding the development and acquisition of expert systems." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA243129.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.
Thesis Advisor(s): McCaffrey, Martin J. Second Reader: Haga, William J. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 31, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Expert Systems, Acquisition, Procurement Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledged Based Systems, Contracting for Expert Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Software Development and Acquisition, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: Expert Systems, Acquisition, Procurement Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledged Based Systems, Contracting for Expert Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Software Development and Acquisition. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58). Also available in print.

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Rindzeviciute, Egle. "Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy : Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15315.

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Efter första världskriget var Sovjetunionen en av de första moderna stater som uttryckligen ägnade sig åt att övervaka och styra kulturen, vilket tog sig formen av en formaliserad och institutionaliserad statlig kulturpolitik. I denna övervakningsoch styrningsprocess försåg vetenskap och teknologi staten med konceptuella och materiella resurser vilka användes för att definiera såväl själva processen som föremålet för den. Efter andra världskriget gav utvecklingen inom naturvetenskap och teknik upphov till en ny vetenskap som behandlade frågor kring kontroll och kommunikation, Norbert Wieners cybernetik, vilken fick en bred tillämpning inte enbart inom ingenjörsvetenskapen utan även i frågor som rörde förståelsen av människor, maskiner och samhällen. Denna avhandling undersöker hur cybernetiken påverkade utformningen av den sovjetiska kulturpolitiken. Fokus ligger särskilt på sovjetiska Litauen. Det huvudsakliga argumentet är att en särskilt inflytelserik diskurs rörande cybernetisk styrning och övervakning utformades i Sovjetunionen från 50-talet och framåt. Som ett resultat av en överföring från tekniska och vetenskapliga diskurser var denna diskurs användbar inte bara som ett verktyg för att tjäna staten utan kunde även användas av kulturella aktörer för att kritisera själva sovjetsystemet. Genom att analysera organisatoriska praktiker och officiella och samhälleliga diskurser avslöjar denna studie komplexiteten i förhållandet mellan styrning och övervakning, kultur och vetenskap och teknologi.
After World War I, the Soviet Union was one of the first modern states to engage explicitly in the governance of culture, which was formalised and institutionalised as state cultural policy. In this process of governance, sciences and technologies provided the state with conceptual and material resources, which were used to define both the process and the object of governance. After World War II, scientific and technological progress gave birth to a new science of control and communication, Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics, which was widely used not only in engineering, but also in the conceptualisation of humans, machines and societies. This thesis explores how cybernetics influenced the construction of cultural policy in the Soviet Union. It focuses particularly on the Soviet republic of Lithuania. The main argument is that since the 1950s a particularly powerful discourse of cybernetic governance was formed in the Soviet Union. A result of translation from techno-science, this discourse not only served the purposes of authoritarian rule, but was also used as a resource by cultural operators to criticise the Soviet government itself. By analysing organisational practices and official and public discourses, the study reveals the complexity of the relationship between governance, culture and sciences and technologies.

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Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. "Constructing Soviet cultural policy : cybernetics and governance in Lithuania after World War II /." Linköping : Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University, 2008. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2008/tek1200s.pdf.

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Seth, Anil Kumar. "On the relations between behaviour, mechanism, and environment : explorations in artificial evolution." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340800.

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Ross, Sue. "Systems intervention in child care : the implications of Gregory Bateson's theories of systems' change for planning and providing social work services for children and families in trouble." Thesis, Keele University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237671.

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Villalobos, Mario Eduardo. "The biological roots of cognition and the social origins of mind : autopoietic theory, strict naturalism and cybernetics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26004.

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This thesis is about the ontology of living beings as natural systems, their behavior, and the way in which said behavior, under special conditions of social coupling, may give rise to mental phenomena. The guiding questions of the thesis are: 1) What kinds of systems are living beings such that they behave the way they do? 2) How, through what kinds of mechanisms and processes, do living beings generate their behavior? 3) How do mental phenomena appear in the life of certain living beings? 4) What are the natural conditions under which certain living beings exhibit mental phenomena? To answer these questions the thesis first assumes, then justifies and defends, a Strict Naturalistic (SN) stance with respect to living beings. SN is a metaphysical and epistemological framework that, recognizing the organizational, dynamic and structural complexity and peculiarity of living beings, views and treats them as metaphysically ordinary natural systems; that is, as systems that, from the metaphysical point of view, are not different in kind from rivers or stars. SN holds that if in natural sciences rivers and stars are not conceived as semantic, intentional, teleological, agential or normative systems, then living beings should not be so conceived either. Having assumed SN, and building mainly on the second-order cybernetic theories of Ross Ashby and Humberto Maturana, the thesis answers question 1) by saying that living beings are (i) adaptive dynamic systems, (ii) deterministic machines of closed transitions, (iii) multistable dissipative systems, and (iv) organizationally closed systems with respect to their sensorimotor and autopoietic dynamics. Based on this ontological characterization, the thesis answers question 2) by showing that living beings’ behavior corresponds to the combined product of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv). Points (i) and (ii) support the idea that living beings are strictly deterministic systems, and that, consequently, notions such as information, control, agency or teleology—usually invoked to explain living beings’ behavior—do not have operational reality but are rather descriptive projections introduced by the observer. Point (iii) helps to understand why, despite their deterministic nature, living beings behave in ways that, to the observer, appear to be teleological, agential or “intelligent”. Point (iv) suggests that living beings’ sensorimotor dynamics are closed circuits without inputs or outputs, where the distinction between external and internal medium is, again, an ascription of the observer rather than a functional property of the system itself. Having addressed the basic principles of living beings’ behavior, the thesis explores the possible origin of (truly) mental phenomena in the particular domain of social behavior. Complementing Maturana’s recursive theory of language with Vygotsky’s dialectic approach the thesis advances, though in a still quite exploratory way, a sociolinguistic hypothesis of mind. This hypothesis answers questions 3) and 4) by claiming that the essential properties of mental phenomena (intentionality, representational content) appear with language, and that mind, as a private experiential domain, emerges as a dialectic transformation of language.

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Abraham, Tara Helen. "Microscopic cybernetics, mathematical logic, automata theory, and the formalization of biological phenomena, 1936-1970." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ53763.pdf.

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Howard, Newton. "The brain language : psychotrauma spectrum disorder and cybernetics detection of disease conditions and comorbidities." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA05T023.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly heterogeneous condition, ranging from individual traumatic incidents such as car accidents to national tragedies such as natural disasters. Every individual has a different depending on their personality and past experiences, especially regarding their tendency to depression. Hence the condition is better termed psychotrauma spectrum disorder (PSD). Its heterogeneity hinders reliable diagnosis, as detection is entirely dependent upon a clinician’s subjective impression and sensitivity to comorbidities and there is always the possibility of concealment. Yet early diagnosis is essential, as the earlier PSD is detected the more likely treatment will be successful. Furthermore, reliable biomarkers of PSD would allow for much more accurate detection and monitoring of progression. Here we propose a new computational approach building on our prior work on the early detection of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and depression. We will use a new analysis tool, called the Brain Code (BC). This concept was developed to integrate many different kinds of data, for e.g. the often fragmented and incomplete outputs from body sensors that record balance, dexterity, postural, facial and vocal movements combined together with cognitive or clinical outputs such as the intentional or emotive content of speech. The Brain Code allows us to fit all these different data streams together in such a way as to compensate for the deficiencies of each individually. It can put disparate physiological and cognitive data into the same ‘coordinate system’, so that we will be able to develop a reliable quantitative ‘signature’ of PSD. These quantitative biomarkers will be designed so that they are useful for both physicians in a clinical setting and for communities affected by a large-scale traumatic event

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Bishop, J. M. "Anarchic techniques for pattern classification." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234667.

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Kay, Martin John. "Spectralism decomposed: an exploration of process and transformation through the improvisational network." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21279.

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Spectralism decomposed is a cross-disciplinary experiment connecting perspectives drawn from the first generation of French Spectralism with the art of improvisation. In Instrumental transformations Martin Kay discusses instrumental synthesis as a strategy for altering instruments through scordatura and preparation, creating unique sonic territories for improvisation. In Metaphorical transformations Kay discusses Spectral composers’ rethinking of musical form through the emergent field of chaos theory, introducing Landgraf’s autopoietic model for improvising networks. Grisey’s ecological rethinking of form leads to compositions influenced by a rhizome metaphor. In Psychological transformations, Kay explores themes of expectation, the present moment, time-perception, memory, and transcendence through analysing Grisey’s Périodes and Murail’s Territoires de l’oubli. In Eclectic emergences, Kay considers the transformation of Spectralism through the improvisational voice. Throughout the paper, Kay explores continuums of order-disorder, predictabilityunpredictability, known-unknown, and individual-totality, viewing compositionimprovisation as poles of an interpenetrable continuum.

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Morlidge, Stephen Philip. "The application of organisational cybernetics to the design and diagnosis of financial performance management systems." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:15457.

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The object of this study is the processes that govern the flow of financial resources around an organisation. This is addressed in the context of the need for organisations to survive and prosper in an uncertain and dynamic world. Specifically, interest is focussed upon the mechanisms responsible for its ability to respond in an appropriate way to environmental disturbances in the short term and adapt to changes in the pattern of environmental disturbances over the longer term. The aim is to identify how this process is carried out and what implications this might have for the efficient and effective design of an organisations and practices and procedures. These are fundamental issues for any sort of social organisations. However, over the last fifty years a body of knowledge has accumulated – often described as systems theory – which seeks to identify and codify the principles that underpin all forms of organisation, whether it is sociological, biological or psychological. Advocates of systems theory claim that invariant principles can be applied, and knowledge transferred, across phenomenological domains. In academia, the study of the mechanisms that govern the flow of financial resources has received considerable attention. The study of Management Control Systems (MCS) in general and budgeting in particular is one of the most densely populated fields of accounting academic research. There has, however, been a surprisingly limited amount published on the application of systems theory to financial control processes. The broad issues that this thesis seeks to address are therefore: • What principles and concepts from systems theory can be applied to study of the management of financial resources in organisations? • How might they contribute to knowledge and understanding of such systems? • How can they be used to design and operate systems in practice?

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Proietti, Salvatore. "The cyborg, cyberspace, and North American science fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0021/NQ44558.pdf.

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Haymond, John Edward. "Warrant and non-human cognition a cybernetic assessment of Plantinga's epistemology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0361.

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Moeller, Sara Kimberly. "The Structure of Goals: Using Cybernetic Theory to Understand Behavior and Functioning." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29856.

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While self-determination researchers emphasize the importance of pursuing internally motivated goals for self-regulation, cybernetic theorists instead highlight the structural features of goal systems and the manner in which such structural features should facilitate controlled behavior in daily life. However, it was our intuition that a consideration of both these literatures might best explain self-regulatory processes in daily life. Along these lines, we conducted two studies in which we measured the degree to which a person's goals are organized in hierarchical manner with respect to their intrinsic versus extrinsic properties. In Study 1, we found that individuals with hierarchical goal structures were less likely to experience increased motivation to quit following frustrating events. Consistent with this pattern, in Study 2 we found that negative feedback concerning goal progress adversely affected only those without hierarchical goal structures. Implications of these findings for perspectives on self-regulation are discussed, as well as potential new directions for testing cybernetic concepts within human functioning.

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Thomas, Samuel Kent. "ADVENTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE EXPEDITION ACADEMY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1626620779000327.

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Giebler, Martin Eberhard. "Creating Convenience : How Virtual Reality allows for Augmented Relationships." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78833.

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This dissertation uses Heidegger’s critique of technology and its essence in an attempt to understand how Virtual Reality technology can change how we interact with the world and each other. The history of VR devices is unpacked to understand the motivation behind VR’s uses and development. Merleau-Ponty’s theories about embodied experiences are also used to understand how VR has an increased capacity to generate a sense of telepresence in the virtual environment for the user. Cases are investigated that specifically deals with how VR has influenced human interactions and rituals and made them more convenient to the users. The first cases focus on religion and how it changes when it is taken online. Specific focus is given to the Church of Fools online church and D.J. Soto’s VR church. The difference between how an online church operates is compared to the VR Church and how embodiment in the VE is experienced in each. This dissertation also explores cases where a user enters a ‘cross-dimensional’ relationship with the virtual. Two cases of people marrying virtual characters are examined. In these cases, the user entered a relationship with a character that was constructed by someone else. The other case examined, is that of Sgt.Hale (username) who created and then married a virtual character in a VE that he designed and based on a real-world location. In each of the relevant cases, how technology has influenced and, in a sense, encouraged them, is explored and unpacked.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Kanjaruek, Saranya. "Dynamic ontology for service robots." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622481.

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Automatic ontology creation, aiming to develop ontology without or with minimal human intervention, is needed for robots that work in dynamic environments. This is particularly required for service (or domestic) robots that work in unstructured and dynamic domestic environments, as robots and their human users share the same space. Most current works adopt learning to build the ontology in terms of defining concepts and relations of concepts, from various data and information resources. Given the partial or incomplete information often observed by robots in domestic environments, identifying useful data and information and extracting concepts and relations is challenging. In addition, more types of relations which do not appear in current approaches for service robots such as “HasA” and “MadeOf”, as well as semantic knowledge, are needed for domestic robots to cope with uncertainties during human–robot interaction. This research has developed a framework, called Data-Information Retrieval based Automated Ontology Framework (DIRAOF), that is able to identify the useful data and information, to define concepts according to the data and information collected, to define the “is-a” relation, “HasA” relation and “MadeOf” relation, which are not seen in other works, to evaluate the concepts and relations. The framework is also able to develop semantic knowledge in terms of location and time for robots, and a recency and frequency based algorithm that uses the semantic knowledge to locate objects in domestic environments. Experimental results show that the robots are able to create ontology components with correctness of 86.5% from 200 random object names and to associate semantic knowledge of physical objects by presenting tracking instances. The DIRAOF framework is able to build up an ontology for domestic robots without human intervention.

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Case, Judd Ammon. "Geometry of empire: radar as logistical medium." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/474.

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This study introduces logistical media and considers one example of such--radar. Innis (1972; 1951), Mumford (1970; 1934), Carey (1988), Virilio (1997; 1989; 1986) and others are discussed as preparing an understanding of logistical media as subtle but powerful devices of cognitive, social, and political coordination that affect our experience of time and space. Radar is presented as significant because of its progressive-catastrophic potential. Radar was invented for national defense and to remotely survey the earth and its atmosphere, but it also allows new collisions with "others." American radar was primarily developed at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT during the 1940s. Historical objects, principally from the MIT Radiation Laboratory Historian's Office, are arranged and discussed according to Walter Benjamin's (1999) historical method. Benjamin theorized that historical debris can be arranged as a dialectical image or constellation that can momentarily disrupt our sense of chronological progress and denaturalize ideology. Benjamin described this disruption as the interruption of the present with the now. Radar is considered in terms of authoritarian modernity, and as contributing to a politics of distance, speed, angle, movement, and perception. Objects from radar history are marshaled to illuminate radar's pre-history, its use of feedback to identify and coordinate objects, and its susceptibility to error and disruption. Present understandings of the 9/11 attacks are challenged by the now of these objects, and an understanding of logistical media is furthered.

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