These are the murderers of Time, the crusaders of Sameness, the lovers of fatality. These are the sectarians of order, the reason-addicts, the go-between people. The Great Legends may indeed be dead, as the post-modern vulgate often claims,…What Foucault's listeners are here supposed to know well and which he refrains from pointing out, is that at the end of the 20th century, the image of piloting, that is, management, became the cardinal metaphor for describing not only polit…The contemporary history of economic discourse must be looked at from the angle of this increasing problem of information. From the crisis of 1929 to 1945, economists' attention was focused on questions of anticipation, uncertainty regardin…
Adam Smith
economist · 4 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Smith appears as an implicit theoretical foundation for market-based arguments about decentralization and self-organization that the course readings invoke to counter centralized control, though he is never directly cited in these excerpts. His ghost haunts the first excerpt's claim that markets naturally discipline better than top-down planning—a classical liberal position being repurposed here to argue against cybernetic command-and-control models. The readings seem to invoke Smith's invisible hand logic as a counterweight to the mid-20th century shift toward informational management and cybernetic governance that the course material critiques.
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