The Architecture of Ideas: The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician (Cybernetics & Human Knowing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788360788 ISBN 13: 9781788360784

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2022

Synopsis

The Architecture of Ideas: The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician includes a text by Bill Seaman, the editor of this collection, called 'Composing Composing' which explores a number of Glanville’s texts in a pointed fashion. Late in his life Ranulph began to use the poetic term composer to be substituted for the term observer. ‘Composing Composing’ is a "composed" conversation derived from some of the salient artifacts of thought that Ranulph has provided for us. It is derived in part from a close reading of The Black B∞x, a three-volume series, and other of Ranulph’s texts as well as the interview that is the heart of this book ― ‘A Long Conversation’.

Glanville helped generate through conversation, publications, works of art, design, music, modes of teaching, and, in particular, his manner of addressing problem solving and creativity, a cybernetic way of coming to understand the world. Our ‘Long Conversation’ circles through these topics, sometimes returning to one or the other topic to further elucidate its finer points.

Ranulph was to some extent a contrarian ― someone who wanted to question the status quo in an ongoing manner, and he would do so utilizing the multiple strategies and methods discussed throughout this book. The volume starts out with a heartfelt text by Aartje Hulstein, Ranulph’s wife, who discusses this brilliantly lived cybernetic journey.

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About the Author

Bill Seaman is an artist, composer and media researcher. His media works often explore an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means ― 'Recombinant Poetics'. More recently he has been exploring notions surrounding 'Recombinant Informatics' ― a multi-perspective approach to inventive knowledge production. He is currently working on a series of art/science collaborations ― poetic installations and scientific research papers as well as a new book related to the scientific work of Otto Rössler. He is a Professor at Duke University in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; and Music. He also works with the Computational Media, Arts and Cultures PhD programme at Duke. He co-directs the Emergence Lab. This year Seaman won a Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Digital Arts from ACM SIGGRAPH for his research into Neosentience, Recombinant Poetics, and Recombinant Informatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788360788
• ISBN 13: 9781788360784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Seaman Bill