systems theory

In this review-essay, James J. Pulizzi reads Joseph McElroy's 1977 novel, Plus, as a Bildungsroman for the posthuman: instead of tracing the development of a subject, the novel traces the development of processes that call the very idea of a subject into question. As a human brain adjusts to its new housing in an experimental satellite, the text unfolds in a series of re-entries and re-mappings, an unfolding that necessarily implicates the reader.

Carsten Schinko on Niklas Luhmann's Analogue Loyalty.

Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.

Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).

Aaron Pease reviews Manual DeLanda's philosophy of the virtual.