Epstein Secrets

st Freed Man" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 205. aceTo be without description of to be.fi A A 14. Stevens, ficeNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction,fi Ibid., p. 389. ficeThe final elegance ... plainly to propound" A A 51 Stevens, aceThe Sail of Ulysses" in Op

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

out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consisting of

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

out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consisting of

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