worship of transparency,
attached at its very roots to
the cybernetic hypothesis.
That the cybernetic vision of
the world is an abstract
machine, a mystical fable, a
cold eloquence which
continually escapes multiple
bodies, gestures, words…But it is possible to envision that there could be, as happened in Genoa in July 2001, panic to a degree sufficient to fuck up the cybernetic programming and pass through various social groups/milieus, panic that would go beyond the annihil…civilization have as a precondition the absence or even exclusion of the panic element, to the extent that it must be built on the basis of expectations, repetitions, security and institutions?" Sloterdijk counters that "it is only thanks t…
Peter Sloterdijk
philosopher · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Sloterdijk emerges here as a critical counterpoint to cybernetic rationality, arguing that panic and proximity to chaos are not failures of social systems but foundational to them—a claim that troubles the cybernetic aspiration for total transparency and control. The readings deploy him against the idea that civilization requires the elimination of panic, suggesting instead that modern systems precariously depend on the very destabilization they claim to engineer away. His work thus opens space to think affect, embodiment, and the irrational as irreducible to cybernetic logic.
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