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Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Historiographical Context
Why It Matters: Two Ideas of Efficiency
The Historical Context
The Culture of Feedback as Practice and Form

1 Systems, Ecology, and Environmentalism

Systems Ecology and Information Theory
Ecological Thinking versus Game Theory
Gary Snyder’s Ecological Ethic
The Subversive Science
Nature’s Feedback

2 Self-Organizing Systems and Mind in Nature

General Systems Theory
Coevolution
Gaia

3 Crying Indian

The Crying Indian
The Ecological Critique of the Scientific Method
Neo-Paganism and Ecofeminism
Inheriting Native Ways
Native American Intellectuals and Ecological Thinking

4 Talking with Plants

Ecology and Plants’ Rights
Vegetal Signings
Listening to Our Vegetal Selves
Psychedelics: Talking Plant-to-Plant
Freaks Like Us
Music for Plants

5 Ambient Music

Sonic Meditations
Noise as Pollution
Acoustic Ecology and “Schizophonia”
Ambient Sound
Ambient Drone and Just Intonation: The Influence of Indian Classical Music
Evolving Pieces: Music as an Ecological System
Brian Eno’s Ambient Music for Airports

6 Dancing with Animals

Beyond Behaviorism
The Willfulness of Dolphins and Horses
Whale Song
Animal Choreographies
Contact Improvisation
Horse Whispering
Choreographies of Confinement
A Tale of Two Dolphins

7 Neo-Orthodoxies

Genetic Determinism
The Resurgence of Game Theory and the End of Limits
Protective Barriers

Conclusion: A Metahistory

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index