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mblance is to the early =ineteenth-century Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the =eading cultural figures of the new industrial age — James Watt, =rasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgewood, Joseph Priestly, Benjamin Franklin. In = similar fashion, The Reality Club is an attempt to gather together =hos
r, Steven Pinker, =nd Roger Schank; artists Gretchen Bender, Peter Halley, April Gornick, =nd Gary Stephan; poets Michael McClure, Paul Mariani, and Gerd Stern; =eligious scholars Richard Baker-roshi, Elaine Pagels, and Robert EFTA_R1_02162148 EFTA02717405 =hurman; editor Steven Levy; social commentators
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
chneemann; dancer Tricia Brown; filmmakers Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Ed Emshwiller, and the Kuchar brothers; avant-garde dramatist Ken Dewey; poet Gerd Stern and the USCO group; minimalist musicians Lamonte Young and Terry Riley; and through Warhol, the music group, The Velvet Underground. Many of these pe
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
chneemann; dancer Tricia Brown; filmmakers Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Ed Emshwiller, and the Kuchar brothers; avant-garde dramatist Ken Dewey; poet Gerd Stern and the USCO group; minimalist musicians Lamonte Young and Terry Riley; and through Warhol, the music group, The Velvet Underground. Many of these pe
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