This essay theorizes dialogic communication as discursive systems comprising cybernetic minds of autonomous bodies, each with partial consciousness. Autonomous bodies are organisms and machines that communicate (i.e., produce and record) in the spaces between subjectivity and consciousness. Cybernetic minds are the structured couplings, the creative circles, the circuitries and feedback loops, that animate the articulated bodies of cybernetic minds. The production of subjectivity situates agency; partial consciousness is the articulation of this situated agency with embodied experience. Insofar as consciousness is both embodied and partial, and insofar as subjectivity is both fluid and situational, autonomous mediate consciousness and subjectivity. Identities, both claimed and assigned, are names for subjects. As bodies communicate from the spaces between subjectivity and consciousness, rather than from the positions of objectivity and truth, the possibility of dialogue emerges, a possibility of communication that moves beyond the dialectics of representation and reference to the dialogics of reflexivity and implicativity. These shifts in generic modes of communication are nonlinear, impermanent and unstable, and constitute a qualitative shift from a materialist to a cybernetic epistemology. Cybernetic mind, then, manifests as the production of subjectivities through the circuitries of self-reflexive partial consciousness -immanent communicative praxis.
