Friedrich Hayek

economist · 7 mentions across 5 readings

In this course

Hayek appears primarily through the cyberlibertarian tradition that claims government is inherently tyrannical—a framework the readings critique as ideologically serving concentrated capital rather than enabling genuine decentralized systems. His influence traces through Reagan and Thatcher into contemporary tech discourse, where libertarian arguments about platform neutrality and market efficiency obscure how algorithms and infrastructure standardize transactions in ways that concentrate power. The course uses Hayek's ghost in right-wing thought to expose how anti-government rhetoric, dressed in systems theory language, actually protects the most hierarchical concentrations of control.

Mentioned in 5 readings

David Golumbia

from Bitcoin, Software as Rightwing Extremism

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I.J. Good

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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The rational procedure in perception would be to estimate the final (a posteriori) probabilities by means of Bayes’ theorem, and then perhaps to select one or more hypotheses for future consideration or action, by allowing also for the util…Wisdom (not J. O. Wisdom) emphasized that we call an object a cow if it has enough of the properties of a cow, with perhaps no single property being essential. The need to make this interpretation of meaning more quantitative and probabilis…

Benjamin H. Bratton

Platform and Stack, Model and Machine

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platforms, from urban street grids to Google, and so to consider their common operations, some abstraction is necessary. Part of their alterity to normal public and private operations is the apparently paradoxical way that they standardize …

Andreessen Horowitz

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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We believe this is the story of the material development of our civilization; this is why we are not still living in mud huts, eking out a meager survival and waiting for nature to kill us. We believe this is why our descendents will live …

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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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…

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