problem of uncertainty, this time on an existential and political terrain. High-flown theories abound, with the old chatterbox Edgar Morin and "complexity" theory, and Joel de Rosnay, that eccentric simpleton, and "society in real-time." Ec…In France, an ensemble of pseudo-savants - the eccentric de Rosnay and the blathering Morin, but also the mystic Henri Atlan, Henri Laborit, René Passet and the careerist Attali - all came together to elaborate, in MIT's wake, Ten Commandme…
Edgar Morin
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Edgar Morin is a French theorist associated with complexity theory and systems thinking who attempted to address uncertainty across existential and political registers in the late 20th century. The course readings invoke him dismissively—as part of a cohort of French thinkers (alongside de Rosnay and Atlan) who adapted cybernetic and ecological ideas to propose frameworks for a "new economy"—suggesting his work represents either an aspirational or cautionary case of how complexity discourse gets mobilized in techno-utopian thinking. His appearance here is primarily polemical, marking a particular genealogy of how European intellectuals absorbed MIT-derived systems thinking into eco-socialist and futurist agendas.
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