Folklore’s Cybernetic Imaginary, or, Unpacking the Obvious
| Autor: | John D. Dorst |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Folklore 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology 060403 folklore Ideal (ethics) Epistemology Variation (linguistics) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Argument 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Cybernetics Sociology Discipline 0604 arts The Imaginary Simple (philosophy) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American Folklore. 129:127-145 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1882 0021-8715 |
| DOI: | 10.5406/jamerfolk.129.512.0127 |
| Popis: | This essay attempts to unpack a core principle of folklore’s "field-Imaginary." Characterized here as a cybernetic Ideal, folklorists take for granted that the folklore process entails a tension between mechanisms of randomizing variation and counter forces of stabilizing constraint, leading to some form of dynamic equilibrium. The argument is not that this foundational idea is wrong, but that the simple form in which we receive it from the field-Imaginary limits what we recognize as relevant to folklore studies. A more complex understanding of (neo)cybernetic thinking can help us enlarge our disciplinary frame and contemplate more critically the digital/ computational turn in folklore studies today. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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