Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones was published in 2002; and released in cinema adaptation in 2010. As a runaway success, doubtless many reviews and discussions would have taken place. This review is experimental: It seeks to consider this popular novel from a perspective about systemicity. My concern here is with the plausibility of transmission of cybernetic ideas and systemic knowledge i...

As I wait in the lounge of Berlin’s Tegel airport, I’m three feet but half a world away from a woman tapping away on her cell phone. We’ve exchanged enough pleasantries to discover that we don’t speak the same language, but I’m convinced I can learn her story from the dance of her ngers across the screen and the movements of her face. Between bursts of action with her thumbs, her right index ng...