The construction of information and communication: A cybersemiotic reentry into Heinz von Foerster's metaphysical construction of second-order cybernetics

Semiotica

Volumn 154, Issue , 2005, Pages 355-399

  Brier, Søren ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*

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EID: 61149560655     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.2005.2005.154-1-4.355     Document Type: Article

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