Transfigured light: philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary
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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00authored byLeon Marvell
Transfigured light: philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary
History
Pagination
1 - 311
Publisher
Academica Press
Place of publication
Bethesda, Md.
ISBN-13
9781933146270
ISBN-10
1933146273
Language
eng
Notes
Ch. 1. Introduction : ideal objects and their forebears -- Ch. 2. Spirit of the beehive : hermetic resonances in cybernetics, AI & cyberspace -- Ch. 3. Body doubles -- Ch. 4. Metaphysical geometry, alien attractors and the shape of the world soul -- Ch. 5. The gnostic alchemy of Robert Fludd -- Ch. 6. The gnostic Leibniz, or What is it like to be an atom?