Epstein Secrets

Wurlitzer, Ihab Hassan, T. E. Hulme, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, David Pears, Main Robbe-Grillet, Victor Gioscia, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller. These words belong to the reader. JOHN BROCKMAN EFTA_R1_02124764 EFT

they belong to the people quoted in the book: Norbert Wiener, Karl Lashley, George Kubler, J. Z. Young, John Lilly, Marshall McLuhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels Bohr, Rene Dubos, D. and K. Stanl

nnamable, op. cit., pp. 394-95. aceThere was never . . . me of me.a A A a Valery, op. cit., p. 40. AceWhen I dream I . I not . . . Nature% A A 54. Brown, op. cit., p. 100. acea fall into . . . natural object: tprojected.aTMa Acethe death of . . . birth of poetry.fi A A a Ibid., p. 107 (quoting Blake)

involves the . . . of information movement.' A A A 9. Stuart Brand, correspondence. AceAll thataTMs traceably ... except through effects.' A A J.. Heinz von Foerster, aceLogical Structure of Environment and Its Internal Representation,' in R. E. Eckerstrom (ed.), International Design Conference, Aspen, 1962 (Zeel

together intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, =nd scientists. Each has been asked to lecture on his own work in terms =f its relationship to Brown's new ideas in mathematics. C. Spencer =rown lectures for two days on his Laws of Form. Alan Watts talks of =astern religious thought. John Lilly di

presents a spiritual path. Stewart Brand lectures on whole systems. =sychologists Will Schutz, Claudio Naranjo, and Charles Tart are in =ttendance. Heinz von Foerster holds forth on cybernetic modeling. My =wn topic is "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Perhaps, of all the "Masters" prese

llan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann; dancer Tricia Brown; filmmakers Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Ed Emshw

d systems—1* order Cybernetics— moved to the Cybernetics of observing systems—2"™ order Cybernetics—or “the Cybernetics of Cybernetics”, as coined by Heinz von Foerster, who joined the Macy conferences in the mid 1950s, and spearheaded the new movement. Cybernetics, rather than disappearing, was becoming metabolized

barely), the red lines shift. Just before Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, many people were worried that sh

ge making, creativity, and the use of programming as artistic tools. The deep connections between science and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cyberneti

llan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann; dancer Tricia Brown; filmmakers Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Ed Emshw

d systems—1* order Cybernetics— moved to the Cybernetics of observing systems—2"™ order Cybernetics—or “the Cybernetics of Cybernetics”, as coined by Heinz von Foerster, who joined the Macy conferences in the mid 1950s, and spearheaded the new movement. Cybernetics, rather than disappearing, was becoming metabolized

barely), the red lines shift. Just before Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, many people were worried that sh

ge making, creativity, and the use of programming as artistic tools. The deep connections between science and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cyberneti