Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive Information Session
This information session for the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive was held on September 3, 2024. Watch to learn about the course, meet the instructors that will be leading the classes, and hear answers to prospective participants' questions.
Instructor
Bruno Clarke
As the Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science Emeritus at Texas Tech University and the 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress, Dr. Bruno Clarke explores critical ecologies of narrative and systems theory in relation to posthumanism and Gaia theory. With Henry Sussman Dr. Clarke edits the book series Meaning Systems at Fordham University Press and with David McConville and Dawn Danby he curates the website Gaian Systems: Planetary Cognition Lab.
Partner
Gaian Systems
Gaian Systems is a transdisciplinary research project to cultivate new forms and practices of planetary cognition. Our aim at Gaian Systems is to communicate humanity’s participation with and within Earth’s biotic and metabiotic processes.
About the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive
A 12-week online course led by Dr. Bruno Clarke and Dr. David McConville of Gaian Systems, and co-produced by Gray Area, the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive will take an alternative ecological route through the larger history of cybernetics. Our aim is to recover and revive the organic and ecological lines of systems thinking and then to venture toward new ways of conceiving and building advanced technological systems — from machines that work in symbiosis with living processes to adaptive architectures and regenerative infrastructures. Join us on a voyage of rediscovery seeking not to imitate life but to integrate the technosphere with the biosphere, to design a technological paradigm grounded in the sensitivity and sentience of the living world.
