Shared Selves Keith Appleyard Cybernetics—the science of communication and

Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems

The authors have a personal stake as well as an intellectual interest in these issues

Renee Brooks Catacalos is here to remind us that eating local is easier'and more rewarding'than we may think

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and readers will come away from this book knowing they have learned something that they will be keen to try out for themselves

Shared Selves Keith Appleyard Cybernetics—the science of communication andMemoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzalda work in places where personal history