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 was a Greek-French theorist of the imaginary institution of society, arguing that social systems are created and sustained through imaginative collective significations rather than purely material or rational structures. His work, particularly developed within the Socialism or Barbarism group, becomes crucial in the course readings for thinking beyond both orthodox Marxism and technocratic automation discourse—allowing Mbembe and others to theorize how societies continually remake themselves through imaginary capacities that resist cybernetic reduction. The readings invoke him to argue that the cybernetic vision of total transparency and control misses the irreducible creative and embodied dimensions of social life that exceed machine logic.
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