Bateson immediately grasped Duchamp’s line of thinking – it reflected ideas that he had been engaging with at the Macy cybernetics conferences and their precursor, the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, where (among other topics but of parti…Diagram from Behavior, Purpose and Teleology by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow in Philosophy of Science, 10 (1943)
Both the paper and the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (Per Bateson “Cerebral inhibition was a respectabl…1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…
Arturo Rosenblueth
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Rosenblueth was a Mexican neurobiologist and polymath who co-authored "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" (1943), a foundational paper that formalized the concept of feedback and goal-directed behavior in mechanical systems—work that directly shaped early cybernetics alongside Wiener and Bigelow. In the course readings, Rosenblueth's work appears as a crucial conceptual bridge between biological systems and mechanical ones, enabling Bateson and others at the Macy conferences to think through how purpose and self-regulation could be abstracted from biology and modeled in machines, a move central to midcentury cybernetics and its later artistic and cultural implications.
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