diminishing it because of the productivity gains granted it by automation. Capitalism is doomed, in sum, because it demands - at the same time - more labor and less labor. The responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s, the cycle of stru…In 1973, Lyotard, who for a long while had associated with Castoriadis within the Socialism or Barbarism group, noted the lack of differentiation between this new marxist, or post-marxist, discourse and the discourse of the new political ec…worship of transparency,
attached at its very roots to
the cybernetic hypothesis.
That the cybernetic vision of
the world is an abstract
machine, a mystical fable, a
cold eloquence which
continually escapes multiple
bodies, gestures, words…
Cornelius Castoriadis
philosopher · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Castoriadis theorized the "imaginary institution of society," arguing that social orders depend on collectively created symbolic systems and imaginaries rather than pure material or structural determination. His work appears in the readings to ground critiques of technocratic rationalism—particularly in Mbembe's discussion of sovereignty and in Lyotard's skepticism toward both Marxist and cybernetic discourses that claim to transcend the social imaginary. His concept of instituted social meaning becomes crucial for interrogating whether AI and automation can ever operate outside the symbolic and imaginative frameworks that constitute them.
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