This entry reviews the life and work of Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a postwar science of communication and control. It seeks to challenge the notion that digital communication is disembodied by highlighting several personal, disciplinary, and political tensions embodying the biography of a founding figure of the current information age.
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%D 2016
%I American Cancer Society
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%T Wiener, Norbert
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