apparatuses so blended with the capitalist project that it has become a political project, a gigantic "abstract machine" made of binary machines run by the Empire, a new form of political sovereignty, which must be called an abstract machin…To provoke panic first of all means extending the background interference that imposes itself when the feedback loops are triggered, and which makes the recording of behavioral discrepancies by the ensemble of cybernetic apparatuses costly.…
Carl von Clausewitz
military theorist · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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Clausewitz appears in these readings primarily as a point of reference for rethinking warfare and strategy through cybernetic and computational systems—his classical military theory is being repurposed to theorize how feedback loops, information control, and behavioral monitoring have become mechanisms of contemporary global power. The excerpts invoke strategic thinking and offensive operations in the context of panic-inducing feedback systems and abstract machines of control, suggesting Clausewitz's conceptual apparatus (strategy, offense, the fog of war) is being retrofitted to analyze how algorithmic sovereignty operates through information manipulation and behavioral tracking rather than traditional military force.
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