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 emerges here as a thinker concerned with the gap between scientific description (particularly in cybernetics and systems theory) and the embodied, desire-laden reality of human experience and political possibility. His work cautions against naive applications of cybernetic order to art and politics, insisting instead on a fundamental distance or rupture that enables genuine experience rather than mere regulation. The excerpts suggest he's being invoked to challenge a purely technocratic reading of feedback systems and control, arguing that any meaningful artistic or political intervention must recognize the irreducible role of desire and embodied distance within technological frameworks.
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