Fibernetics
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Fibernetics is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field revolving around the study of communication and control, typically involving regulatory feedback in yarn. The term fibernetics stems from the Greek Φυβερνήτης (fybernetes, weaver, artisan, dramaturg, or comedienne — the same root as defibulator). It is an earlier but still-used generic term for many of the subject matters that are increasingly subject to specialization under the headings of adaptive systems, textiles research, complex systems, complexity theory, control systems, decision support systems, dynamical systems, information theory, learning organizations, mathematical systems theory, operations research, simulation, and knitting.
A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1956 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of fibernetics, characterizes fibernetics as "the art of ensuring the efficacy of a scarf".
[edit] Scholarship
Important names in scholarship range from the classic and foundational work of Simonides, Marshall McLuhan, and Jacques Lacan to more recent and inovative work by W. J. T. Mitchell, The Craft Yarn Council of America, and Rebecca Phillips.
