{"title":"Andrew Pickering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Pickering\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a thought-provoking exploration of scientific knowledge and technological development. His works delve into the interplay between humans and machines, often examining the evolving nature of cybernetics and the philosophy of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analyses that challenge conventional views on scientific progress, blending history, theory, and critical reflection. His writing invites a deeper understanding of how complex systems shape our world and knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-cybernetic-brain-by-andrew-pickering-9780226667904","title":"The Cybernetic Brain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cybernetic Brain\u003c\/i\u003e explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599387050220,"sku":"9780226667904","price":131.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f508991a6e129f21572c633066a6d782.jpg?v=1778023786"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/andrew-pickering.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}