Tag Archives: Bateson

Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality

Posted on August 13, 2015 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 6 Comments

Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics

Posted on May 9, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 8 Comments

The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)

Posted on March 3, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 16 Comments

Mold/Modulation, Analog/Digital (A Handful of Deleuze Quotes)

Posted on February 23, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abstract painting, analog, Artaud, Bateson, computers, control, Deleuze, digital, discipline, Guattari, mechanosphere, modulation, mold, synthesizer | 1 Comment

Nomad Culture

Posted on June 28, 2013 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bateson, cybernetics, Deleuze, Nietzsche, nomadim, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | 5 Comments

Radical Therapeutics: Family Therapy and the Politics of Chance

Posted on June 20, 2013 by edmundberger

“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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, Bateson, Deleuze, Elkaim, family therapy, Guattari, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | 7 Comments

The Ghost in the Machine

Posted on May 1, 2013 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bateson, Baudrillard, communication, Guillaume, post-Fordism | 5 Comments

Tag Archives: Bateson

Into the Mystic: Capitalism and the Structuralization of Spirituality

Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics

The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)

Mold/Modulation, Analog/Digital (A Handful of Deleuze Quotes)

Nomad Culture

Radical Therapeutics: Family Therapy and the Politics of Chance

The Ghost in the Machine

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