"Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke's project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory as he declares the era of the cyborg to have ended. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory's potential to provide fresh insights into the familiar topics of media studies and narrative theory." --Publisher's description.

1. Systems, Media, Narrative: From the Trace to the Telepathic Imaginary -- 2. Communication and Information: Noise and Form in Michel Serres and Niklas Luhmann -- 3. Feedback Loops: Media Embedding and Narrative Time from Jimi Hendrix to Eternal Sunshine and Memento -- 4. Observing Aramis, or the Love of Technology: Objects and Projects in Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour -- 5. Mediations of Gaia: Ecology and Epistemology from Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari to Avatar.