Committee members: Hansen, Mark B. N.; Jagoda, Patrick
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-22398-9
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Comparative Literature
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
The University of Chicago
امتياز متن
2014
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
My dissertation project focuses on the history of cybernetics and aesthetics as a key site for the comparative study of cultural exchange between Arabic and American cultures. I argue that the emergence of cybernetics in the post-WWII era provided an infrastructure for a synthesis of Arabic and American aesthetic traditions, centering on the arabesque as a key aesthetic form driving this synthesis. The arabesque gained importance with the transformation of the technological media environment of American societyin the 1950s and 60s, when computational machines were first introduced. I contend that the arabesque form proved highly relevant for providing a formal description of the recursive systems cybernetics studied (also known as self-organizing systems), regardless of whether these systems existed in nature, technology, or society. Cybernetic notions, such as feedback and information, self-organization and emergence, could be correlated with the recursive forms found in the Arabic aesthetic tradition because the arabesque offered suitable aesthetic forms for the emerging post-human age that appeared with the cybernetic paradigm.
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Cybernetics;Herbert, frank;Media studies;Pynchon, thomas;Systems theory;U.s. and arab mideast
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