Cybernetic-existentialism : freedom, systems, and being-for-others in contemporary art and performance /

"Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Art and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the 'universal science' of cyb...

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Main Author: Dixon, Steve, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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