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Birth and Death and Cybernation: Cybernetics of the Sacred

$18.00

Book Size: US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)
Page Count: 194 Pages
Interior Color: Standard Black & White
Paper Type: 60# Cream — Uncoated
Binding Type: Paperback Perfect Bound
Cover Finish: Matte

part of a series of reprints of books in the "Social Changes" series put out by Gordon and Breach, curated and edited by Victor Gioscia. the ones we are focused on are the book-length works put out by individuals involved with Raindance, an art/philosophy/etc collective working in the 70s, most well known for the amazing journal Radical Software.

Paul Ryan went from being a teenage monk to studying under Marshall McLuhan. this is a collection of his writings, spanning from a deep interest on the cybernetic potential of videotape, to his concerns (since proven to be extremely legitimate) about corporate interference in these liberatory potentials, to various attempts at a rigorous understanding of how individuals can harmoniously cooperate. alongside and in-between are a host of wonderful collages, illustrations, and diagrams.

as usual, the pdf is available on the internet archive, so you can give it a flip-through and see if it's the sort of thing you're into.

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