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Tag Archives: cybernetics
Learning the Future: Bogdanov, Neurath, and Scientific Socialism
Socialism has had a sort of poor track record as of late when it comes to science and technology. From Stalin’s violent repression of Mendelian genetics (and privileging of the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko) to the modern contemporary contingencies of … Continue reading
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Tagged altermodernism, Bogdanov, complexity, culture, cybernetics, education, Futurism, Mach, Marxism, modernism, Neurath, p2p, partner state, socialism, socialism21c, Soviet Union, systems theory
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Labor, Automation, and Refusal
Marxism has, and had for a quite a long time, a problem with the question of work. This is not to say that Marxism can be confused with the insistence of its antagonist, capitalism, over the relations of labor and … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, automation, autonomism, communism, cybernetics, DIY, information technology, labor, Marcuse, Marxism, Mumford, refusal of work, revolution, technology
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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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Technics in the Rear-view Mirror
[Text fragment from a work in progress] It is by no accident that the theme of the “Eternal Network” emerged in the ferment of the 1960s and the dawning of the 1970s. It was precisely in this time that the … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s, automation, cybernetics, Eternal Network, Marcuse, media, modernization, Mumford, technology, Wiener
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Cybernetic Gaia: On Lovelock and Latour
[The following is extracted from Niklas Schrape’s “Gaia’s Game”, found in Afterlives of Systems] There exists a curious tension between Latour’s reading of the Gaia hypothesis and Lovelock’s own wording that makes one wonder if they are actually writing about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, climate change, cybernetics, Gaia, information technology, Latour, Lovelock, simulation
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Speculations: Command and Control Ecologies
Political groupings and executive authorities appear to be totally incapable of understanding the full implications of these issues. Despite having recently initiated a partial realization of the most obvious dangers that threaten the natural environment of our societies, they are … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, control, cybernetics, governmentality, neoliberalism, SAGE, System Dynamics
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Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
[This has been cross-posted with discussion over at Synthetic Zero] (worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, apparatus, architecture, civil society, contagion, control, crisis, cybernetics, Deleuze, design, everyday life, glitch, Guattari, hacking, Information Guerrilla, information theory, Metropolis, neoliberalism, noise, Protocol, schizoanalysis, Situationism, urbanism
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An Information Guerrilla Reader
To continue the thread began in The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla and followed in Informatic Guerrilla Warfare, the DIU presents “An Information Guerrilla Reader”, a somewhat haphazard text-dump that will elucidate some aspects of what this figure could look like, while … Continue reading
Informatic Guerrilla Warfare
Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency Traditional guerrilla activity such as bombings, snipings, and kidnapping complete with printer manifestos seems like so many ecologically risky short change feedback devices compared with the real possibilities of portable video, maverick data banks, acid metaprogramming. … Continue reading
The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla
The Posthuman Steve Hickman has a great new post up over at Dark Ecologies, musing on the inevitable transition taking place around us, a fractal mutation at the center of the question of what it means to be human in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, Arthur Kroker, Asger Jorn, Bataille, communication guerilla, cybernetic guerilla warfare, cybernetics, drift culture, Empire, globalization, Hardt, Hegel, Information Guerrilla, internet, Luther Blissett, multitude, Negri, neoliberalism, noise, Peirce, post media, post-Fordism, posthuman, postmodernism, Situationist, tactical media, Thirdness, transhumanism, triolectics
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Deterritorial Investigations 