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=Final Project= Examine the sites of our intimate lives from a systems theoretic standpoint. Considering systems thinking as a general analytic framework concerned with open and closed systems, principles of feedback and control beyond mere technology, I will test its value in interpreting the domestic, social, and linguistic systems we actually inhabit. Where do systems understandings lose their traction in engagement with the messy conditions of home, family, love, and desire? Where do they succeed? To anchor this analysis, I draw on works of art engaged with these sites, which can be productively analyzed from a systems theoretic standpoint. I will pay particular attention to the neglected remainder in systems analysis, what is left out of our systems stories?  This project will not be an exhaustive study: tilt your head appropriately and anything can be viewed as a systems. My method is a subjective one: focused on those sites and relations that have the strongest personal significance for me, appraising systems perspectives in terms of their explanatory power for interpreting my lived experience. I want to test the value of systems understandings in this personal arena: if they can't address the full scope of human experience then what good are they?  ==FEEDBACK LOOPS== When are they productive? When are the masturbatory, solipsistic? Circular motion. Wasted energy with no output?  Script. Reading Reference.  Sketchbooks. Typing and retyping.  drawing, recording, playback. tracing.  verbal/speech. (solipsist) self-reflexivity. self-reflection.   ==MACHINES FOR LIVING IN== PTZ video systemvoice-ID / speech recognitionstomach body torso situps habitus, technologies of the self krapp's tape recorder thoreau's cabin the medical waiting room the car craigslist  biosphere space-shipboat, house boat  facebookcell-phone providerISP google economic familial interpersonal relationships (friendships)    ==SYSTEMS== professional career technical (the simplest) interpersonal relations (are they systems?) body romantic imaginative productive (practice, methodology) academic entertainment production / consumption (as I am watching Vikings while I write this)  ==FEEDBACK LOOP== the big onesfeed my own history back into my present(guidance, steermanship "cybernetics")  ==INTERVENTION== home as refuge. scramble the codes (linguistic, etc.) in the home  **Ross Ashby - http://www.rossashby.info/