Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?
May 31, 2023
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as posted by the channelAdam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU.
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AlsoCatch James' talk on his work for the COVER centre at the University of Essex
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