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Tag Archives: Bateson
Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality
In his fantastic book The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, Paul N. Edwards forwards a quasi-literary reading of the way power and subjectivity operate in the age of the computer, focusing primarily on … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s, Anthropocene, Bateson, Cold War, communication, conscious capitalism, counterculture, cybernetics, Esalen, Fordism, information theory, neoliberalism, New Age, post-Fordism, psychoanalysis, RAND corporation, rationality, Rockefeller Foundation, schizophrenia, spirituality
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Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics
The following essay was originally intended for publication, but I find it to be a bit too unwieldy, and not fully articulated in the sense of coming-together that I would have hoped. I’m posting it here, however, as a sort … Continue reading
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Tagged alterity, Bataille, Bateson, counterculture, cybernetics, ektos, excess, feedback, Fluxus, Guattari, industrial, information, information technology, information theory, mail art, media, noise, noise music, noncommunication, Norbert Wiener, outsider art, self-organization, Situationism, subculture, via negativa, William Burroughs
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The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)
The Colors of Revolution As the Cold War came to an end, undoing the critical strategic worldwide gridlock fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, globalization took off, accelerating the flows of capital, technology, and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bateson, civil society, color revolution, communication, complexity theory, control, counterculture, cybernetics, Deleuze, democracy, democracy promotion, emergence, Freedom House, geopolitics, globalization, Guattari, hacking, Hardt, information technology, internet, LaRouche, military-industrial-complex, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, networks, NGOs, psychoanalysis, psychology, R.D. Laing, RAND corporation, revolution, Rockefeller Foundation, Students for a Democratic Society, swarm, Tavistock
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Mold/Modulation, Analog/Digital (A Handful of Deleuze Quotes)
Postscript on the Societies of Control (1992) The different internments of spaces of enclosure through which the individual passes are independent variables: each time one us supposed to start from zero, and although a common language for all these … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract painting, analog, Artaud, Bateson, computers, control, Deleuze, digital, discipline, Guattari, mechanosphere, modulation, mold, synthesizer
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Nomad Culture
Gilles Deleuze: Faced with the decoding of our societies, the leaking away of our codes, Nietzsche is the one who does not endeavor to recode. He says: things still haven’t gone far enough, you are just children yet (“the equalizing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bateson, cybernetics, Deleuze, Nietzsche, nomadim, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis
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Radical Therapeutics: Family Therapy and the Politics of Chance
“Perhaps the domain of family therapy was postmodern before its time, eschewing a vision of progress toward a progressively revealed ‘truth’ for one in which the coexistence of multiple voices allows us to contribute to the richness of our unique … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bateson, Deleuze, Elkaim, family therapy, Guattari, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis
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The Ghost in the Machine
In 1991, Jean Baudrillard was joined by radical economist Marc Guillaume for series of seminars dedicated to the topic of “the Other.” Like many of their cohorts emerging from the continental tradition, particularly those associate with Italy’s Autonomia, they foresaw … Continue reading
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Tagged Bateson, Baudrillard, communication, Guillaume, post-Fordism
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A Counter-History of the California Ideology
From California, Wired magazine has achieved global notoriety through its claims that the Net will create the sort of free market capitalism until now only found in neo-classical economics text books. Everyone will be able to buy and sell in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bateson, CIA, Cold War, counterculture, cybernetics, digerati, internet, Ken Kesey, LSD, Merry Pranksters, MK-ULTRA, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, Stewart Brand
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