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is a symptom of a broader universal transformation from recognizing the presence of what-is-present in terms of objectiveness to recognizing what-is-present instead in terms of orderability.

The transformation of the presence of what-is-present from objectiveness to orderability is, however, also the precondition for the fact that something like the cybernetic way of representation can emerge and lay claim to the role of the universal science at all. (Heidegger: Question Concerning the Determination of the Matter for Thinking)

is a technique for producing and refining a message form that is recognizable and efficient as both a mobile value-bearing container of meaning and a sensory prosthesis.

Wiener defines cybernetics in its basic form as a theory of messages with the goal 'to develop a technique for producing and refining a message form that is recognizable and efficient as both a mobile value-bearing container of meaning and a sensory prosthesis' (Axel 2006: 359).

is concerned not with events and objects but the information 'carried' by events and objects.

Gregory Bateson, one of the strongest anthropological proponents of cybernetics, explained in 1967 that 'the subject matter of cybernetics is not events and objects but the information 'carried' by events and objects' (1987a:407). The form of communication, what Bateson referred to as 'pattern,' had become the very subject of analysis (1987a: 412) (in Riles 2001:62).

is concerned with developing a language and techniques that will enable us indeed to attack the problem of control and communication in general, but also to find the proper repertory of ideas and techniques to classify their particular manifestations under certain concepts.

This idea suggests that the goal of human communication is to become familiarized with a certain environment while simultaneously influencing aspects of it. With this, Wiener wrote:The purpose of Cybernetics to develop a language and techniques that will enable us indeed to attack the problem of control and communication in general, but also to find the proper repertory of ideas and techniques to classify their particular manifestations under certain concepts.

is grounded in the assumption that everything is information. There is neither matter nor energy, simply meaningful differences. We can thus cease to speak of objects, speaking rather of 'object-events', which are what they are by virtue of their location in interlocking systems of various orders, as when he speaks, not of a lumberjack at work, but of 'the system tree-eyes-brain-muscles-axe-stroke-tree'.

in [cybernetics] it is assumed that all is information: there is neither matter nor energy, simply meaningful differences. Bateson ceased to speak of objects, speaking rather of 'object-events', which are what they are by virtue of their location in interlocking systems of various orders, as when he speaks, not of a lumberjack at work, but of 'the system tree-eyes-brain-muscles-axe-stroke-tree'. Thus cybernetics recapitulates Butler who argued in 1903 that: 'in the end we shall be driven to admit the unity of the universe so completely as to be compelled to deny that there is either an external or an internal, but must see everything as both external and internal at one and the same time, subject and object (butler 327)' in (Tresh 'Heredity..'1998)

is the ability to cure all temporary truth of eternal triteness.

Herbert Brun defines cybernetics as 'the ability to cure all temporary truth of eternal triteness

is the general study of communication and the related study of control in both machines and in living beings.

the 'general study of communication and the related study of control in both machines and in living beings

is the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine' (norbert wiener)

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