Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Simondon appears in these readings primarily as a theorist of the technological object and human-machine relations who offers a critique of cybernetics from within rather than without—his concept of the "technological individual" and processes of individuation provide an alternative to purely functionalist accounts of control and automation. He enables arguments about intermediary beings and non-hierarchical forms of socialization that sidestep both capitalist and socialist frameworks by attending to how technology and humans co-constitute each other through concrete processes rather than abstract ideologies. His work seems positioned here as a resource for thinking beyond the cybernetic hypothesis itself, particularly in how technological systems generate emergent forms of collective intelligence and political creativity.

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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 (2001)

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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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