From a 1796 paper by Georges Cuvier on living and fossil elephants, presented before the National Institute of Sciences and Arts in Paris.
Norton Wise, “Time in Victorian Science and Culture,” in From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature, ed. Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 55.
Ibid., 57.
Ibid., 41.
Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), 58.
Wise, “Time in Victorian Science and Culture,” 45.
Bruce Clarke, “From Thermodynamics to Virtuality,” in From Energy to Information, 18.
Ibid., 15.
Ibid., 19.
William Thomson, “On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, April 19, 1852. Emphasis added.
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1961), 58.
Bruce Clarke, “From Thermodynamics to Virtuality,” 20.
Norton Wise, “Time in Victorian Science and Culture,” 51.
Vladislav Čápek and Daniel Sheehan, Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), 26.
Bruce Clarke, “Dark Star Crashes,”in From Energy to Information, 62.
Eugene McCarraher, in The Short American Century, ed. Andrew Bacevich (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 189.
Norton Wise, “Time in Victorian Science and Culture,” 45.
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, rev. ed.(1954; repr., Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1988), 158.
Wiener, Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.
Myron Tribus and Edward C. McIrvine, “Energy and Information,” Scientific American 225, (September 1971): 179–88.
David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, and Slava Gerovitch, “Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union,” in Science and Ideology: A Comparative History, ed. Mark Walker (London: Routledge, 2003), 67.
In the words of Shannon’s Russian editor, quoted in ibid.
Ibid.
Daniel Hartley, "Against the Anthropocene," quoted in →.
Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing, 79.
In his recent book Nihil Unbound, Ray Brassier states that extinction is the inexorable fate of existence: “The earth will be incinerated by the sun 4 billion years hence; all the stars in the universe will stop shining in 100 trillion years; and eventually, one trillion, trillion, trillion years from now, all matter in the cosmos will disintegrate.”
Fredric Jameson, “The Aesthetics of Singularity,” New Left Review 92 (March–April 2015).
Ibid.
“Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment,” that is, the level of unemployment below which inflation rises.