
Emergence and Embodiment
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Introduction: Neocybernetic Emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N26. Hansen 1
Interview with Heinz von Foerster / Interviewer: Bruce Clarke 26
Heinz von Foerster's Demons: The Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory / Bruce Clarke 34
The Early Days of Autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela 62
Life and Mind: From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology / Evan Tompson 77
Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi 94
System-Environment Hybrids / Mark B. N. Hansen 113
Self-Organization and Autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann 143
Space is the Place: The Laws of Form and Social Systems / Michael Schiltz 157
Improvisation: Form and Event-A Spencer-Brownian Calculation / Edgar Landgraf 179
Communication versus Communion in Modern Psychic Systems: Maturana, Lohmann, and Cognitive Neurology / Linda Brigham 205
Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction": Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe 220
Complex Visuality: The Radical Middleground / Ira Livingston 246
Bibliography 263
Contributors 279
Index 281
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