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 primarily as a theorist of how desire and subjective distance operate within technological and cybernetic systems, resisting purely mechanistic readings of order and control. The course readings invoke him to argue against naive political conclusions drawn from scientific descriptions of disorder—insisting that thought itself must recognize its own investments and desires rather than claim pure objectivity. His work enables a critique of cybernetics that refuses to reduce human experience to regulated flows, instead locating political potential in the gaps and distances that persist within systems of devices.
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