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 here primarily as a critical foil for theorizing how cybernetic systems colonize domains of human communication and lived experience that his theory of communicative rationality tried to protect as autonomous. The course readings fault him for reducing the heterogeneity of actual forms-of-life to manageable categories of discourse and social interaction, thereby missing how the cybernetic hypothesis systematically expropriates even the spaces he thought salvageable through rational deliberation. His concept of the "lifeworld" becomes a point of contestation when confronted with theories that see participatory democracy itself as already captured by systemic control.
Background
Jürgen Habermas was a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addressed communicative rationality and the public sphere. He held professorships at Heidelberg University and Goethe University Frankfurt and directed the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg.
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