TY - BOOK AU - Faucher,Kane X. TI - Metastasis and Metastability: A Deleuzian Approach to Information T2 - Educational Futures Series SN - 9789462094284 AV - L1-991 PY - 2013/// CY - Rotterdam PB - BRILL KW - Information theory-Philosophy KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Metastasis and Metastability: A Deleuzian Approach to Information -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Information-in-Itself -- 2. Simondon Information -- 3. Deleuze's Ontology: Black Box, White Noise -- 4. States and Territories -- 5. Metastability and Metastasis -- 6. A Deleuzian Approach to Information -- 7. Deleuze Contra Cybernetics -- Appendix I: Ex Libris: A Nomad Information Science -- Appendix II: Informatics, Memetics, Rhizomatics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - This book explores a Deleuzian way of understanding information by retracing Deleuze's ontology of difference back to Gilbert Simondon's concepts of transduction, metastability, and perpetual individuation as a source for Deleuze's concept of the virtual. Although Deleuze did not address information specifically in his oeuvre, this book attempts to construct what a Deleuzian theory of information might look like as a consequence of his philosophical insights UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3034907 ER -