Cybernetic-Existentialism - Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance (Hardcover)

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the 'universal science' of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists' works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and 'noise', feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon's groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Steve Dixon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-14249-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-367-14249-X
Barcode:	9780367142490

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