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 …
Philippe Carles
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Philippe Carles appears in the readings as a theorist concerned with how desire and subjective distance operate within systems of control and regulation, particularly in relation to cybernetics and technological mediation. His work seems to challenge naive applications of systems theory to politics by insisting that any meaningful experience or artistic intervention requires recognition of an irreducible gap between the subject and the regulated flows of systems. The excerpts suggest he's being invoked to complicate determinist readings of cybernetics and to preserve a space for what might be called critical distance or creative refusal within technological environments.
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