Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Julian Bigelow was an engineer and co-author with Wiener and Rosenblueth of the foundational 1943 paper "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology," which established key cybernetic concepts of feedback and goal-directed systems that would structure postwar thinking about control, communication, and artificial purpose. His work appears in the course readings as a pivot point connecting early mechanistic philosophy to the Macy Conferences, where these ideas circulated among intellectuals like Bateson who were rethinking the relationship between technology, biology, and human intention. The paper represents the formal theorization of feedback mechanisms that would later inform both machine design and conceptual art's engagement with systems thinking.

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Scott Benzel

Notes on À bruit secret: on Duchamp, Cybernetics, and Organized Crime

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Bateson immediately grasped Duchamp’s line of thinking – it reflected ideas that he had been engaging with at the Macy cybernetics conferences and their precursor, the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, where (among other topics but of parti…Diagram from Behavior, Purpose and Teleology by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow in Philosophy of Science, 10 (1943) Both the paper and the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (Per Bateson “Cerebral inhibition was a respectabl…1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…

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