Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Simondon emerges in these readings as a theorist of technics who reframes the relationship between humans and machines beyond simple domination or control—arguing instead for what he calls the "technological individual" as a distinct ontological category that cannot be reduced to either capital or labor. His work enables a critique of cybernetics not as totalizing system but as a framework for understanding the socialization of technical objects themselves, offering a way to think about collective intelligence and interdependence that escapes both Cold War control narratives and exhausted socialist models. The readings invoke him to suggest that machines and humans co-evolve through processes of individuation, rather than existing in a fixed hierarchical relation.

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Yuk Hui ChatGPT

or the Eschatology of Machines - Journal #137

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Cybernetics, a term coined by Norbert Wiener around 1943, was developed by a group of scientists and engineers who attended the Macy Conferences on cybernetics in the late forties and early fifties. Cybernetics was intended to be a universa…The “intelligence” found in machines today is a reﬂective form of operation, as both Gotthard Günther and Gilbert Simondon rightly observed. For Günther, cybernetics is the realization of Hegel’s logic, while for Simondon, it was only in th…Human beings were not upset when domesticated animals such as horses and cows replaced them as providers of energy. They instead welcomed the relief from repetitive and tiresome labor. The same happened when steam engines replaced animals; …

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Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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But we can't be done dealing with socialism (expired now as a result of the cybernetic hypothesis) without mentioning another voice: I want to talk about the critique centered around man-machine relations that has attacked what it sees as t…and of groups that one can come up with an intelligence of the intermediary and non-mixed being that is the technological individual... The dialogue of capital and labor is false, because it is in the past. The socialization of the means of…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…

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James Brusseau

Deleuzes Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics

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a society of control. This essay updates Deleuze’s Postscript with three aims. First, to show how the mechanisms of social control have developed over the last thirty years. Today, ‘control’ is no longer an abstract concept in political phi…

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