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ocess of control via feedback. (“Cybernetics,” from the ancient Greek for “helmsman,” is the etymological basis of our word “governor,” which is what James Watt called his pathbreaking feedback control device that transformed the use of steam engines.) Because he was immersed in problems of control, Wiener sa

dicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

ntury. 174 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016977 from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices an

itique it.” 173 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016976 THE ARTISTIC USE OF CYBERNETIC BEINGS Caroline A. Jones Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

ocess of control via feedback. (“Cybernetics,” from the ancient Greek for “helmsman,” is the etymological basis of our word “governor,” which is what James Watt called his pathbreaking feedback control device that transformed the use of steam engines.) Because he was immersed in problems of control, Wiener sa

dicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

ntury. 174 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016394 from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices an

itique it.” 173 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016393 THE ARTISTIC USE OF CYBERNETIC BEINGS Caroline A. Jones Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P