“Cognitive assemblages are collectivities—not exclusively human, not exclusively organic—through which information, interpretations, and meanings circulate.”
– Scholar
N. Katherine Hayles, explaining her terminology for thinking systems that does not privilege thought by organisms or “leave machines out of the picture.” Her lecture “Detoxifying Cybernetics: From Homeostasis to Autopoiesis and Beyond,” caps a
series reconsidering cybernetics for the 21st century.
