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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
r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon
ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession
and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:
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
r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon
ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession
and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:
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
tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L
and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea
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
tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L
and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea
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