It would be naive to directly deduce, in this scientific description of the potential for disorder, a new political art. The error of the philosophers and of all thought that deploys itself without recognizing in itself, in its very
pronou…in cybernetics. But that would be incorrect, since it means not seeing that at the root of these gestures is a fundamental distance from the regulated flows, a distance that is precisely the condition for any experience within the world of …
Jean-Louis Comolli
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Comolli appears in these readings as a theorist of desire and subjective distance within technical systems—particularly concerned with how desire operates beneath philosophical and scientific pronouncements about order and control. His work is invoked to argue against naive applications of cybernetic or systems-based thinking to art and politics, insisting instead that any meaningful experience or critique requires recognizing the fundamental gap between regulated flows and human agency. The excerpts suggest he's being used to theorize how distance from technical systems, rather than mastery of them, constitutes a form of power or freedom essential to artistic and political practice.
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