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The Soft Machine - Cybernetic Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Soft Machine - Cybernetic Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence
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The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a
significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in
the larger cultural and scientific context. David Porush shows how
the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence that have
sparked our present revolution in computer and information
technology have also become the source for images and techniques in
our most highly sophisticated literature, postmodern fiction by
Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon, Beckett, Burroughs, Vonnegut and others.
With considerable skill, Porush traces the growth of "the metaphor
of the machine" as it evolves both technologically and in
literature of the twentieth century. He describes the birth of
cybernetics, gives one of the clearest accounts for a lay audience
of its major concepts and shows the growth of philosophical
resistance to the mechanical model for human intelligence and
communication which cybernetics promotes, a model that had grown
increasingly influential in the previous decade. The Soft Machine
shows postmodern fiction synthesizing the inviting metaphors and
concepts of cybernetics with the ideals of art, a synthesis that
results in what Porush calls "cybernetic fiction" alive to the
myths and images of a cybernetic age.
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