But it is possible to envision that there could be, as happened in Genoa in July 2001, panic to a degree sufficient to fuck up the cybernetic programming and pass through various social groups/milieus, panic that would go beyond the annihil…Speed upholds institutions. Slowness cuts off flows. The kinetic problem, properly speaking, in politics, thus isn't about choosing between two kinds of revolt but about abandoning oneself to a pulsation, of exploring other intensifications…But it also means that these other rhythms, as manifestations of ontological wobbliness, have always had a creative political function. Canetti himself also discusses how on the one hand "the rapid repetition by which steps are added onto s…
Elias Canetti
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Canetti appears in these readings primarily as a theorist of crowd dynamics and mass behavior, particularly through his concept of panic as a force that can exceed or disrupt cybernetic control systems. The excerpts invoke his work on rhythm, repetition, and the phenomenology of masses to argue that unpredictable collective movements—especially those operating at different speeds or intensities than institutional programming—possess a creative political potential. His thinking enables the course's broader investigation of how AI systems and social organization might be vulnerable to forms of collective behavior that resist computational management.
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