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Expanded Cinema ArchiveMain Menu"The nervous system of mankind."Gene YoungbloodPerception & ConsciousnessCyberneticsArt and TechnologyIn practiceOther archviesKatie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5
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1media/ExpandedCinema_cover.jpg2016-11-02T08:40:06-07:00Katie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5118972plain2016-11-02T08:43:48-07:00Katie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5The book's introduction is written by Buckminster Fuller, an architect and important figure within the field of cybernetics. In the intro, Fuller surveys the relationship between human beings and the Universe, using metaphors from biology and obstetrics (describing the evolution of human beings as a kind of gestational process), and automation (calling the Universe "a self-regenerating and transforming machine" (22)). He rejects, however the compartmentalization of time, space, and experience. "There is no static geometry of omni-interrelationship of Universe events. Some of the stars you are looking at have not been there for a million years...
"Now humans have become suspicious of their little machines, blaming them for the continual disconnects of the inexorable evolutionary processes of cosmic gestations which--transcendental to their brain detecting -- ever and again emit them into a greater, more inclusively exquisite spherical environment of automated mechanical controls..." (23)