Chapter 9. The Takeoff of Cybernetics: Medial Recursions of the Odyssey

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xxvii
5. Note for the English-language edition xxix
6. Departure. Topoi of Wiliness: Erring and Returning in the Odyssey 1
7. Chapter 1. Rites of Passage: Cults and Religions of Fortunate Seafaring 42
8. Chapter 2. In Search of Fortune: The Birth of Insurance from Maritime Danger 72
9. Chapter 3. Disorientation: Poetic Experiments with Hydrography 121
10. Chapter 4. The Ship of State: Cultural Techniques of Early Modern “Sea Appropriation” 179
11. Chapter 5. The Figure of the Captain: Doctrine of Maritime State of Emergency 210
12. Chapter 6. The Ethos of Wreckage: Perils of Modernized Seafaring 254
13. Chapter 7. Shipwreck and Seasickness on Land: Terrestrial Loss of Safety 291
14. Chapter 8. Potential Peril: Geopolitical Loss of Difference 338
15. Chapter 9. The Takeoff of Cybernetics: Medial Recursions of the Odyssey 363
16. Conclusion. Memory of the Sea: The Archeology of Maritime Culture 398
17. Cited Literature 439
18. List of Figures 495
19. Index of Names 497
20. Index of Subjects 504