Emergence and embodiment: new essays on second-order systems theory

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Neocybernetic emergence / Bruce Clarke and Mark B.N. Hansen -- Interview with Heinz Von Foerster / interviewer, Bruce Clarke -- Heinz Von Foerster's demons : the emergence of second-order systems theory / Bruce Clarke -- The early days of autopoiesis / Francisco J. Varela -- Life and mind : from autopoiesis to neurophenomenology / Evan Thompson -- Beyond autopoiesis : inflections of emergence and politics in Francisco Varela / John Protevi -- System-environment hybrids / Mark B.N. Hansen -- Self-organization and autopoiesis / Niklas Luhmann -- Space is the place : the laws of form and social systems / Michael Schiltz -- Improvisation : form and event : a Spencer-Brownian calculation / Edgar Landgraf -- Communication versus communion in modern psychic systems : Maturana, Luhmann and cognitive neurology / Linda Brigham -- Meaning as event-machine, or systems theory and "The reconstruction of deconstruction" : Derrida and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe -- Complex visuality : the radical middleground / Ira Livingston.