After the 1970s socialism was just another democratism anymore, now completely necessary for the progress of the cybernetic hypothesis. The ideal of direct democracy and participatory democracy must be seen as the desire for a general expro…Aside from the fact that he reduced the "lived world" and "everyday life" - the whole of what escaped the control machine, to social interactions and discourses, Habermas more profoundly ignored the fundamental heterogeneity of forms-of-lif…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…
Jürgen Habermas
philosopher · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Habermas appears in these readings primarily as a theorist of the public sphere and communicative rationality whose emphasis on discourse and social interaction is critiqued for being too narrow—specifically for reducing the lived world to linguistic exchange while missing the fundamental heterogeneity of different forms of life that escape systematic control. The course uses his work as a foil for understanding how cybernetic systems absorb and neutralize democratic ideals like participation and direct democracy, turning them into mechanisms of total integration rather than emancipation. This positions Habermas as representative of a post-1970s liberalism that, despite its critical intentions, remains complicit with the very systems it claims to oppose.
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